Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「水盡山窮」. Explanation below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「水盡山窮」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Poor: all. The mountains and the water came to an end. A metaphor for being in a desperate situation with no way out.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuǐ jìn shān qióng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seui2 jeun6 saan1 kung4
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