Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「彈丸脫手」, explained below.
Here’s the idiom 「彈丸脫手」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It is a metaphor for poetry that is smooth, elegant, agile and fluent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dàn wán tuō shǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taan4/daan6 yun4/yun2 tyut3 sau2
Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.
