Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「枕冷衾寒」.
Here’s the idiom 「枕冷衾寒」, with its definition and practical application described below.
The pillow and quilt are cold. Describes the loneliness and desolation of sleeping alone.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhěn lěng qīn hán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jam2 laang5 kam1 hon4
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