Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「萬民塗炭」 for your learning.
Discover the idiom 「萬民塗炭」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Tu: mud; Tan: charcoal fire. The people were like those who were trapped in a quagmire and fell into a sea of fire. Describes the extremely difficult situation that the vast majority of people are in.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàn mín tú tàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
maan6 man4 tou4 taan3
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