Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「多歧亡羊」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「多歧亡羊」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The sheep was lost because there were too many forks in the road to follow. It is a metaphor that things are complex and changeable, and without the right direction, one will go astray. It also means that it is not easy to be proficient in one’s studies if one studies too many things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duō qí wáng yáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
do1 kei4 mong4 yeung4
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