After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「哀毀骨立」. Meaning and usage are below.
Learn about the idiom 「哀毀骨立」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Ai: sorrow; Hui: damage to the body; Gu Li: describes being extremely thin with only a skeleton left. In the old days, it was used to describe a person who was so sad after the death of his parents that he became as thin as a bag of bones.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
āi huì gǔ lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
oi1 wai2 gwat1 lap6
Chinese idioms encompass an enormous variety, each rich in its meanings and uses. We’ve compiled these resources to support your efforts in learning the language.
