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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「衣衫藍縷」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「衣衫藍縷」, with its definition and practical application described below.

The clothes are torn.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī shān lán lǚ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi1 saam1 laam4 leui5

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.