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 「花街柳巷」, with details below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「花街柳巷」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Hua and Liu: used to refer to prostitutes. It used to refer to a place for entertainment. Also refers to a brothel.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huā jiē liǔ xiàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fa1 gaai1 lau5 hong6/hong2
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
