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Chinese idioms like 「骨軟肉酥」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Discover the idiom 「骨軟肉酥」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Describes the feeling of general fatigue and limp limbs. Same as “soft bones and brittle tendons”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǔ ruǎn ròu sū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwat1 yun5 yuk6 sou1

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