Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「恨海難填」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「恨海難填」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Sea of hatred: resentment is as vast as the sea; difficult to fill: difficult to fill. A metaphor for resentment that is difficult to resolve.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hèn hǎi nán tián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
han6 hoi2 naan4 tin4
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.
