Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「朽木糞土」, explained here.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「朽木糞土」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Rotten wood: rotten wood; manure: dirty soil and smelly mud. A metaphor for people who are unteachable and useless to society.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiǔ mù fèn tǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nau2 muk6 fan3 tou2
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