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 「吹毛洗垢」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「吹毛洗垢」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Blow away the hair on the skin and wash away the hidden dirt. A metaphor for looking for the faults or shortcomings of others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chuī máo xǐ gòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui1 mou1/mou4 sai2 gau3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
