Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「唇焦舌敝」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「唇焦舌敝」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Jiao: dry; Bi: broken. Dry lips and cracked tongue. Describes talking too much and wasting one’s breath.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chún jiāo shé bì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seun4 jiu1 sit3 bai6
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