Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「塚木已拱」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「塚木已拱」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
The trees on the tomb are very tall. A metaphor for being old and dead for many years.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǒng mù yǐ gǒng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chung2 muk6 yi5 gung2
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