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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「雨後春筍」. Explanation below.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「雨後春筍」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It means that after the rain in spring, a lot of bamboo shoots grow all of a sudden. A metaphor for things emerging quickly and in large numbers.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǔ hòu chūn sǔn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu5 hau6 cheun1 seun2

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