We’re offering free resources to help you learn Chinese. In this series, idioms and proverbs take center stage, known for their deep meanings and versatile usage. Today’s idiom is 「餓殍滿道」, explained below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「餓殍滿道」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
殍: People who died of starvation. The roads were littered with corpses of people who had died of hunger. It describes the tragic situation where a famine disaster is severe and large numbers of people die from hunger and cold.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
è piǎo mǎn dào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ngo6 piu5 mun5 dou6
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