Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「殘花敗柳」 today with this free Chinese resource.
Introducing the idiom 「殘花敗柳」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Defeat: decline. Can: wither. Withered willows and dead flowers. In the old days, it was used to refer to women who lived a dissolute life or were ravaged and abandoned.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cán huā bài liǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaan4 fa1 baai6 lau5
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