Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「玉減香銷」.
Discover the idiom 「玉減香銷」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
A metaphor for a beautiful woman’s thinness and listlessness.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yù jiǎn xiāng xiāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yuk6 gaam2 heung1 siu1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
