Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「無米之炊」, explained here.
Discover the idiom 「無米之炊」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Cook: to cook. A metaphor for something that cannot be accomplished due to the lack of necessary conditions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wú mǐ zhī chuī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mou4 mai5 ji1 cheui1
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