Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「寒蟬仗馬」 here, with meaning and examples.
This feature highlights the idiom 「寒蟬仗馬」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Guard horse: the standing horse in the imperial palace guard. Like the guards outside the palace gate and the cicadas in winter. A metaphor for not daring to say a word.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hán chán zhàng mǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon4 sim4 jeung3 ma5
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