To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「絲絲入扣」 explained, free of charge.
This feature highlights the idiom 「絲絲入扣」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Sisi: every strand of silk; Kou: one of the main parts on a loom. When weaving, each silk thread must pass through the teeth of the reed. The metaphor is done in a very detailed, orderly and coordinated manner.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sī sī rù kòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
si1 si1 yap6 kau3
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