Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「金壺墨汁」 and how it’s used.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「金壺墨汁」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Refers to extremely precious and rare calligraphy and painting supplies.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīn hú mò zhī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam1 wu2/wu4 mak2 jap1
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.

