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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「荊棘叢生」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Thorn: Vitex thistles. Cong: gathered in a pile. Briers and thorns grew in groups. It is a metaphor that the road ahead is full of obstacles and difficulties.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng jí cóng shēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ging1 kik1/gik1 chung4 saang1/sang1
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