Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「惜墨如金」 and its usage.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「惜墨如金」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Cherish: cherish. Cherish ink like gold. It means not to write easily.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī mò rú jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik1 mak2 yu4 gam1
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