Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「一成一旅」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「一成一旅」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Cheng: In ancient times, an area of ten miles in radius was considered a cheng; Lu: In ancient times, a brigade consisted of 500 soldiers. Describes a place with narrow land, few people and weak strength.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī chéng yī lǚ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 sing4 yat1 leui5
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