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 「釜中生魚」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「釜中生魚」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It is a metaphor for life being difficult and having no food for a long time.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǔ zhōng shēng yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu2 jung3/jung1 saang1/sang1 yu2
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