We are committed to providing free Chinese study materials. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, rich in meaning and widely applicable. Today’s idiom is 「不辨菽麥」, with its explanation below.
Here’s the idiom 「不辨菽麥」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Shu: beans. I can’t tell which is beans and which is wheat. Describes stupidity and ignorance. The latter describes the lack of practical production knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù biàn shū mài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 bin6 suk6 mak6
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