Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「著述等身」, with more below.
Let’s dive into the idiom 「著述等身」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
Writings: written works. The books I have written are piled up to the same height as myself. Used to describe a large number of works. Also written as “a body of work”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhe shù děng shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeuk3/jeuk6 seut6 dang2 san1
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