Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「死灰複燃」. Explanation below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「死灰複燃」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
The cold ashes began to burn again. Originally a metaphor for a person who has lost power regaining power. It is now often used to describe the resurgence of evil forces that have disappeared.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sǐ huī fú rán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sei2 fui1 fuk1 yin4
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