Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「計窮力屈」.
Here’s the idiom 「計窮力屈」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Ji: strategy; Qiong, Qu: to use up, to exhaust. All strategies and strength have been used up.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jì qióng lì qū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gai3/gai2 kung4 lik6 wat1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
