Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「反面教員」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「反面教員」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Negative side: the bad, negative side. Refers to the words and deeds of those who are enemies of the people, which can educate the people from the negative side.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǎn miàn jiāo yuán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan2 min6 gaau3 yun4
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
