Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「益壽延年」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「益壽延年」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means to prolong life and increase years. Same as “prolong life”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yì shòu yán nián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yik1 sau6 yin4 nin4
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