Chinese idioms like 「噬臍莫及」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Here’s the idiom 「噬臍莫及」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Umbilical biting: biting the belly button with the mouth. It’s like biting your own belly button, you can’t reach it. A metaphor for when it is too late to regret.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì qí mò jí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai6 chi4 mok6 kap6
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