Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「斷管殘沈」, with more below.
Here, we present the idiom 「斷管殘沈」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Incomplete calligraphy and painting. Tube, pen; Chen, ink.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duàn guǎn cán shěn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tyun5 gun2 chaan4 sam2/cham4
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