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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「涓滴成河」 below.

Learn about the idiom 「涓滴成河」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Trickle: small drop of water. Little drops of water come together to form a river. Describes the accumulation of small amounts.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

juān dī chéng hé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gyun1 dik6 sing4 ho4

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