The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「一跌不振」, detailing its meaning and use.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「一跌不振」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
It is a metaphor for being unable to recover after suffering a setback. Same as “never recover from a setback”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī diē bù zhèn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 dit3 bat1 jan3
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