Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「蝸行牛步」 below.
Here’s the idiom 「蝸行牛步」, with its definition and practical application described below.
The snail crawls, the old cow walks slowly. Metaphorically speaking, extremely slow action or progress.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wō háng niú bù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wo1 haang4/hong4/hang4 ngau4 bou6
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