Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「汗流浹背」.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「汗流浹背」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Soaked: soaked. Sweat was all over my back. Describes being very frightened or extremely scared. It is now also used to describe sweating a lot, with the clothes on the back being soaked.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hàn liú jiā bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon6 lau4 jip3 bui3
Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.
