Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「一丘一壑」 below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「一丘一壑」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Hill: a hill of earth; ravine: a ravine. Originally referred to the place where hermits lived. Later it was mostly used to refer to expressing one’s feelings through mountains and rivers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī qiū yī hè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 yau1 yat1 kok3
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