Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「夏蟲朝菌」 today with this free Chinese resource.
The featured idiom 「夏蟲朝菌」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
It means that summer insects cannot survive winter and fungi are born in the morning and die in the evening. A metaphor for a very short life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xià chóng cháo jūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ha6 chung4 jiu1 kwan2
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