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This feature highlights the idiom 「蝸角蠅頭」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Snail horns: snail’s tentacles; fly head: fly head. A metaphor for a profit that is so small that it is not worth mentioning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wō jiǎo yíng tóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wo1 gok3 ying1/ying4 tau4
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
