Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「鰈離鶼背」.
Today’s idiom is 「鰈離鶼背」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
A metaphor for the separation of a couple or lovers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dié lí jiān bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dip6 lei4 gim1 bui3
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