From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「臥榻鼾睡」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「臥榻鼾睡」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Others were sleeping soundly next to their beds. It is a metaphor for others wantonly encroaching on one’s interests.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wò tà hān shuì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ngo6 taap3 hon4 seui6
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