To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「蒲柳之姿」 explained, free of charge.
The featured idiom 「蒲柳之姿」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Cattails and willows: Cattails and willows both wither before autumn, which is extended to mean early aging. In the old days, it was a polite way of describing oneself as having a weak constitution.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pú liǔ zhī zī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pou4 lau5 ji1 ji1
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