Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「抑揚頓挫」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「抑揚頓挫」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Suppress: lower; raise: raise; pause: pause; setback: turning point. Refers to the rise and fall of sound and the pauses and turns of sound.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yì yáng dùn cuò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yik1 yeung2/yeung4 deun6 cho3
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