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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「救火揚沸」 and its explanation.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「救火揚沸」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Boil: boiling water. Metaphors do not solve the problem fundamentally. It also describes a critical situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiù huǒ yáng fèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau3 fo2 yeung2/yeung4 fai3

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.