Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「夜長夢短」, with more below.
Here’s the idiom 「夜長夢短」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for having difficulty falling asleep because of something on one’s mind.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yè zhǎng mèng duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ye6 cheung4/jeung2 mung6 dyun2
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