Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「枯魚銜索」. Explanation below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「枯魚銜索」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Dried fish on a string. Used to describe the fact that something’s days are numbered.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kū yú xián suǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu1 yu2 haam4 sok3
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