Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「春蛙秋蟬」, explained here.
Here, we present the idiom 「春蛙秋蟬」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Frogs croak in spring and cicadas chirp in autumn. A metaphor for noisy, exaggerated and empty talk.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chūn wā qiū chán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheun1 wa1 chau1 sim4
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