Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「孤臣孽子」, detailed below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「孤臣孽子」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A lone minister: a distant minister who is isolated and helpless in the feudal court; an illegitimate son: a bastard son born to a concubine. A metaphor for people who encounter hardships.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gū chén niè zǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gu1 san4 yit6 ji2
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