Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「戛然而止」, detailed below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「戛然而止」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Describes the sudden cessation of a sound.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiá rán ér zhǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gaat3 yin4 yi4 ji2
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