To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「金戈鐵甲」 explained, free of charge.
This feature highlights the idiom 「金戈鐵甲」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A metaphor for war. It also describes the heroic posture of a soldier riding a horse with a gun in hand. Same as “Golden Swords and Iron Horses”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīn gē tiě jiǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam1 gwo1 tit3 gaap3
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