Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「朽木生花」, explained below.
The idiom 「朽木生花」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
It refers to the transformation from withered to flourish, a metaphor for the rebirth of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiǔ mù shēng huā
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nau2 muk6 saang1/sang1 fa1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.

