Helping you learn Chinese for free is our aim. This idiom and proverb series offers phrases with great depth and versatility. Let’s look at 「豆重榆瞑」 and how to use it.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「豆重榆瞑」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Originally it meant that eating too much soybeans would make people fat, and eating elm would make people sleep longer. Later it is used to describe that human nature is difficult to change.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòu zhòng yú míng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dau2 jung6/chung5/chung4 yu4 ming4
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