Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「蘭因絮果」 below.
Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「蘭因絮果」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
Lan Yin: a metaphor for a beautiful combination; Xu Guo: a metaphor for a discrete ending. It is a metaphor for a marriage that is happy at first but ends in divorce.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lán yīn xù guǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
laan4/laan1 yan1 seui5 go2
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