We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「漏盡更闌」, with its usage explained below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「漏盡更闌」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Leak: An ancient instrument for measuring time by dripping water. Night time unit. Refers to the late night.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lòu jìn gèng lán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lau6 jeun6 gang3/gaang1 laan4
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