Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「固若金湯」. Explanation below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「固若金湯」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
A city made of metal and a moat formed by boiling water. Describes a fortification that is extremely solid.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gù ruò jīn tāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gu3 yeuk6 gam1 tong1
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