Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「大人先生」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「大人先生」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
In the old days, it referred to people with status and position. Sometimes with irony.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà rén xiān shēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 yan4 sin1 saang1
The collection of Chinese idioms is enormous, with each one holding its own meaning and purpose. We hope these resources can assist you in better understanding and learning Chinese.
