4 characters Idiom and proverb 28 573

Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「斷壁殘垣」, with details below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「斷壁殘垣」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Ruins: a collapsed short wall. Remaining and collapsed walls. Describes a scene of devastation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duàn bì cán yuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tyun5 bik1 chaan4 wun4

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