4 characters Idiom and proverb 17 948

Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「接踵比肩」 below.

Learn about the idiom 「接踵比肩」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Heel: the back of the foot. Heels touch, shoulders meet. Used to describe a large number of people coming one after another.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē zhǒng bǐ jiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jip3 jung2 bei2 gin1

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