Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「姚黃魏紫」. Explanation below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「姚黃魏紫」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Yao Huang: A peony with a thousand petals and yellow flowers, produced by the Yao family; Wei Zi: A peony with a thousand petals and fleshy red flowers, produced by the Wei Renpu family. Originally refers to two precious peony varieties in Luoyang during the Song Dynasty. Later it came to refer to precious flowers in general.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yáo huáng wèi zǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yiu4 wong4 ngai6 ji2
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