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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「烽鼓不息」 and how it’s used.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「烽鼓不息」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Beacon fire and war drum; rest: stop. A metaphor for endless war.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng gǔ bù xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 gu2 bat1 sik1

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