Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「香消玉殞」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「香消玉殞」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
A metaphor for the death of a beautiful woman.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiāng xiāo yù yǔn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heung1 siu1 yuk6 wan5
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
