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 「勢如破竹」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「勢如破竹」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Momentum: momentum, power. The situation is like splitting bamboo. After the first few sections are broken, the sections below will separate along the direction of the knife. It is a metaphor for successive victories without any obstacles.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì rú pò zhú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai3 yu4 po3 juk1
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