Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「臉黃肌瘦」. Explanation below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「臉黃肌瘦」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Yellow face and thin body. Describes the appearance of being malnourished or sick.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liǎn huáng jī shòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lim5 wong4 gei1 sau3
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