Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「水滴石穿」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「水滴石穿」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
If water keeps dripping, it can wear through a stone. It is a metaphor that as long as you have perseverance and keep working hard, things will surely succeed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuǐ dī shí chuān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seui2 dik6 sek6 chyun1
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