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 「劍首一吷」, with details below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「劍首一吷」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
吷: Onomatopoeia, describing a small sound. Metaphorically speaking, the speech is insignificant. Same as “a clash of sword tips”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiàn shǒu yī jué
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gim3 sau2 yat1 hyut3
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