Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「以珠彈雀」, with its explanation below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「以珠彈雀」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Shoot sparrows with pearls. A metaphor for confusing the important and the unimportant, resulting in more loss than gain.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ zhū dàn què
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 jyu1 taan4/daan6 jeuk2
Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.
