Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「釜中之魚」—details below.
Learn about the idiom 「釜中之魚」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Fish swimming in the pot. A metaphor for not being able to live long.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǔ zhōng zhī yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu2 jung3/jung1 ji1 yu2
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