Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「山虧一簣」, with more below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「山虧一簣」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A metaphor for failure at the brink of success.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shān kuī yī kuì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saan1 kwai1 yat1 gwai6
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