Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「如渴如饑」, with more below.
Learn about the idiom 「如渴如饑」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Describes an urgent mood or request. Same as “hungry and thirsty”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rú kě rú qí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu4 hot3 yu4 gei1
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