Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「零光片羽」.
Learn about the idiom 「零光片羽」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
A metaphor for a small part of something precious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
líng guāng piàn yǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ling4 gwong1 pin2/pin3 yu5
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