We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「直上直下」, with its usage explained below.
Learn about the idiom 「直上直下」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
①Be consistent from beginning to end. ②From top to bottom, from head to toe. ③Describes steepness.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhí shàng zhí xià
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jik6 seung5/seung6 jik6 ha6
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.
