Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「桂薪玉粒」, explained here.
We’re presenting the idiom 「桂薪玉粒」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Refers to the high cost of firewood and rice.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guì xīn yù lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai3 san1 yuk6 lap1
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