Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「如臨深淵」, with more below.
Here’s the idiom 「如臨深淵」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Lin: close to; Yuan: deep pit. It’s like being on the edge of an abyss. It is a metaphor for being wary and acting with extreme caution.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rú lín shēn yuān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu4 lam4 sam1 yun1
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