Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「枕流漱石」. Explanation below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「枕流漱石」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
In the old days, it referred to a secluded life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhěn liú shù shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jam2 lau4 sau3 sek6
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