Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「內外交困」. Explanation below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「內外交困」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Jiao: at the same time; Kun: dilemma. We are in a difficult situation both inside and outside.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nèi wài jiāo kùn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
noi6 ngoi6 gaau1 kwan3
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