Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「敗柳殘花」, with more below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「敗柳殘花」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Defeat: decline. Can: wither. Withered willows and dead flowers. In the old days, it was used to refer to women who lived a dissolute life or were ravaged and abandoned.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bài liǔ cán huā
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baai6 lau5 chaan4 fa1
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