Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「寅支卯糧」, explained here.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「寅支卯糧」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
This year we eat the next year’s food. It is a metaphor for financial difficulties, where income is not enough to cover expenses, and future income is spent in advance. A metaphor for financial difficulties and not making ends meet.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yín zhī mǎo liáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 ji1 maau5 leung4
Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.
