Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「背曲腰彎」, with more below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「背曲腰彎」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
The back is bent. Often refers to sitting for a long time or being old. Same as “bend the back and waist”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bèi qǔ yāo wān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bui3 kuk1 yiu1 waan1/waang1
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