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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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