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 「大千世界」, explained below.
Discover the idiom 「大千世界」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
In Buddhist terminology, a thousand times the world is called a small thousand world, a thousand times the small thousand world is called a middle thousand world, and a thousand times the middle thousand world is called a great thousand world. Later it refers to the vast and boundless human world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà qiān shì jiè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 chin1 sai3 gaai3
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.
