From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「集腋成裘」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「集腋成裘」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Armpit: armpit, refers to the fur under the fox’s armpit; fur coat: leather coat. Although the skin under the fox’s armpits is very small, it can be gathered together to make a fur coat. A metaphor for small amounts accumulating to amount to a lot.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jí yè chéng qiú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jaap6 yik6 sing4 kau4
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