4 characters Idiom and proverb 19 552

Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「魚爛土崩」—details below.

Here’s the idiom 「魚爛土崩」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for internal unrest in a country.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yú làn tǔ bēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu2 laan6 tou2 bang1

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