Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「汗牛充棟」, as shown below.
Here, we present the idiom 「汗牛充棟」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Dong: building, house. The oxen were so tired that they sweated when transporting the books, and when storing the books, they could be piled up to the roof. Used to describe a large collection of books.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hàn niú chōng dòng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon6 ngau4 chung1 dung6
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