Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「海水桑田」. Explanation below.
The featured idiom 「海水桑田」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Just like the sea changes into mulberry fields. It is a metaphor that the world is changing greatly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hǎi shuǐ sāng tián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hoi2 seui2 song1 tin4
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