Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「雪泥鴻爪」, with more below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「雪泥鴻爪」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Snow mud: mud made from melted snow. The wild geese left footprints on the snow. A metaphor for the traces left by the past.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xuě ní hóng zhǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syut3 nai4 hung4 jaau2
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
