Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「亞肩迭背」, explained here.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「亞肩迭背」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Shoulders press against shoulders, backs touch against backs. Describes a crowded place.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yà jiān dié bèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
a3 gin1 dip6 bui3
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