Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「九鼎一絲」, with more below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「九鼎一絲」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Same as at the eleventh hour, metaphorically means extremely critical.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiǔ dǐng yī sī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau2 ding2 yat1 si1
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