Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「強弩之極」. Explanation below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「強弩之極」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It’s like a spent force. It is a metaphor that a powerful force has become weak and can no longer play any role.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiáng nǔ zhī jí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
keung4 nou5 ji1 gik6
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