From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「一夕一朝」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「一夕一朝」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
One night or one morning. Describes a very short period of time. Same as “overnight”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī xī yī cháo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 jik6 yat1 jiu1
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