4 characters Idiom and proverb 23 737

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「鼠齧蟲穿」. Explanation below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「鼠齧蟲穿」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Refers to rat bites and insect bites.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǔ niè chóng chuān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syu2 ngit6 chung4 chyun1

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