Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「魚爛取亡」 and its explanation.
This feature highlights the idiom 「魚爛取亡」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The fish rots from within. A metaphor for self-destruction due to internal corruption.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yú làn qǔ wáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu2 laan6 cheui2 mong4
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