Chinese language progresses from characters to idioms. This free guide explains the advanced idiom 「蠶食鯨吞」 for better learning.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「蠶食鯨吞」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It invades step by step like a silkworm eating mulberry leaves and swallows up all at once like a whale swallowing. A metaphor for invading and annexing other countries’ territories by various means.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cán shí jīng tūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaam4 sik6 king4 tan1
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