Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「嗬欠連天」 and how it’s used.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「嗬欠連天」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Yawning: When you feel sleepy, you often can’t help but open your mouth and take a deep breath. Constant yawning. ①Describes the state of not waking up yet. ②A metaphor for being very tired. Also written as “breathing all the way to the sky”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hē qiàn lián tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ho4 him3 lin4 tin1
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