Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「八字打開」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「八字打開」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Like the character “八”, the left and right strokes are separated to the sides. The original meaning is to ignore the right path and take the crooked way. It also means that the road is very wide.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bā zì dǎ kāi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baat3 ji6 da2 hoi1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
