Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「一鱗片爪」, explained here.
Learn about the idiom 「一鱗片爪」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
A metaphor for fragmentary things. Same as “one scale and one claw”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī lín piàn zhǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 leun4 pin2/pin3 jaau2
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