4 characters Idiom and proverb 2 597

Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「土穰細流」 and how it’s used.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「土穰細流」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Soil: mud; stream: stream. A metaphor for small things. It also means that although things are very small, they can play a huge role by constantly accumulating.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǔ ráng xì liú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tou2 yeung4 sai3 lau4

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