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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「浹淪肌髓」, with its explanation below.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「浹淪肌髓」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Penetrate into the muscles and penetrate into the bone marrow. A metaphor for extremely deep feelings. Same as “penetrating the marrow and muscles”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiā lún jī suǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jip3 leun4 gei1 seui5

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.