Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「風刀霜劍」, with details below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「風刀霜劍」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
The cold wind is like a knife, and the severe frost is like a sword. Describes the climate as being cold and stinging to the skin. It also refers to a bad environment.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēng dāo shuāng jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung1 dou1 seung1 gim3
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
