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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「依頭縷當」. Explanation below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「依頭縷當」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A metaphor for making things clear one by one.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī tóu lǚ dāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi1 tau4 leui5 dong3/dong1

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.