Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「父析子荷」 and its explanation.
This feature highlights the idiom 「父析子荷」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The father chops wood, and the son carries it. A metaphor for descendants inheriting the unfinished work of their parents.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fù xī zǐ hé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu6 sik1 ji2 ho4/ho6
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