Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鑠石流金」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「鑠石流金」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Thallium, flow: melt. Stone was melted and metal turned into water. Used to describe hot weather.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuò shí liú jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seuk3 sek6 lau4 gam1
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