Chinese idioms like 「剩山殘水」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Discover the idiom 「剩山殘水」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Broken mountains and rivers. It is often used to describe the scenery of a country after it has been destroyed or after a disaster. It also refers to things that remain without being eliminated.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shèng shān cán shuǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jing6 saan1 chaan4 seui2
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