Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「瓦解星散」, with details below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「瓦解星散」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Like tiles breaking, like stars scattering. It is a metaphor for family members being separated and going their separate ways. Also known as “Disintegration of Stars”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wǎ jiě xīng sàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nga5 gaai2 sing1 saan2
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