Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「日薄西山」 here, with meaning and examples.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「日薄西山」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Thin: approaching. The sun is about to set. It is a metaphor for a person who is old or a thing that is decaying and near death.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rì báo xī shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat6 bok6 sai1 saan1
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