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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「骨瘦如柴」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「骨瘦如柴」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Describes being extremely thin.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǔ shòu rú chái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwat1 sau3 yu4 chaai4

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