Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「直言極諫」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「直言極諫」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
① Refers to giving advice with upright words. In ancient times, it was mostly used by subjects to address their monarchs. ②A shortened name for the category of speaking frankly and making extreme suggestions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhí yán jí jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jik6 yin4 gik6 gaan3
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.
