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 「詰詘聱牙」, with details below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「詰詘聱牙」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Describes sentences that are difficult and not fluent. Same as “twisty and difficult to pronounce”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jié qū áo yá
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kit3 wat1 ngou4 nga4
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
