Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「一日九遷」, explained below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「一日九遷」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Nine: describes many times; Qian: promotion. Multiple promotions in one day. It is a metaphor for very rapid promotion in official position.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī rì jiǔ qiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 yat6 gau2 chin1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
