Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「硝雲彈雨」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「硝雲彈雨」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
The smoke was like clouds and the bullets were like rain. Describes a fierce battle.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiāo yún dàn yǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu1 wan4 taan4/daan6 yu5
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