Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「形影相對」, explained here.
Today, we explore the idiom 「形影相對」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Describes being helpless and very lonely. Same as “shadow hanging together”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xíng yǐng xiàng duì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ying4 ying2 seung1 deui3
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