Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「虛度年華」. Explanation below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「虛度年華」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Empty: no gain or achievement. The years have passed in vain.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xū dù nián huá
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heui1 dou6/dok6/dou2 nin4 wa4
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