Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「齒弊舌存」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「齒弊舌存」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
It means that the hard is easy to break, but the soft is hard to destroy.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chǐ bì shé cún
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chi2 bai6 sit3 chyun4
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
