Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「功成骨枯」 today for free with this guide.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「功成骨枯」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It is a metaphor for making many others make great sacrifices for one’s own selfish interests.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng chéng gǔ kū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 sing4 gwat1 fu1
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