Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「矢石之難」. Explanation below.
Introducing the idiom 「矢石之難」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Arrows and stones: arrows and gravel, weapons used in ancient warfare. Difficulty: an unfortunate encounter. Refers to the danger in war.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǐ shí zhī nán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chi2 sek6 ji1 naan4
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