Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「杅穿皮蠹」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「杅穿皮蠹」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
杅: drinking fountain. It is a metaphor for making full preparations in advance and taking action after careful planning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wū chuān pí dù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu1 chyun1 pei4 dou3
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