Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「一波三折」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「一波三折」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Originally refers to the tortuous and varied writing strokes. Now it is used to describe the ups and downs of the structure of an article. It also means that there are many unexpected changes while things are going on.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī bō sān shé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 bo1 saam1 jit3
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