4 characters Idiom and proverb 15 595

Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「時來運來」 and its explanation.

This feature highlights the idiom 「時來運來」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The situation was originally unfavorable, but when an opportunity came, his fortunes began to improve. Same as “good luck comes your way”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí lái yùn lái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si4 loi4 wan6 loi4

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