Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「白發青衫」, with details below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「白發青衫」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Green shirt: the clothing of those who have no official title. It means that one is old but has not yet achieved fame and success.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái fā qīng shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 faat3 ching1/cheng1 saam1
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