Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「度德量力」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「度德量力」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Degree: estimate; virtue: virtue. Measure whether your virtue is convincing enough to convince others, and estimate whether your ability is sufficient.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dù dé liàng lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou6/dok6/dou2 dak1 leung4/leung6 lik6
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.
