Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「風中之燭」. Explanation below.
The featured idiom 「風中之燭」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Candlelight flickering in the wind. A metaphor for an elderly person who may die at any time. It also refers to things that may be destroyed at any time.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēng zhōng zhī zhú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung1 jung3/jung1 ji1 juk1
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