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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「如墮煙海」.

Discover the idiom 「如墮煙海」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Fall: fall. It’s like falling into endless smoke. It is a metaphor for being lost, unable to find the clue, and unable to grasp the key points.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rú duò yān hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu4 do6 yin1 hoi2

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