Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「玉粒桂薪」, detailed below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「玉粒桂薪」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Rice is like jade, and firewood is like cinnamon. Extremely high cost of living.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yù lì guì xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yuk6 lap1 gwai3 san1
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