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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「焦金流石」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「焦金流石」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Scorch and melt metals and stones. Describes extremely dry and hot weather.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiāo jīn liú shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jiu1 gam1 lau4 sek6

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