We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「易子析骸」.
Let’s dive into the idiom 「易子析骸」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
It refers to exchanging children for food and splitting bones for cooking. Describe the tragic situation caused by natural disasters and man-made calamities.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yì zǐ xī hái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi6 ji2 sik1 haai4
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