To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「食指大動」 explained, free of charge.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「食指大動」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Originally it meant a sign of delicious food, and later it was used to describe the greedy look when seeing something delicious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí zhǐ dà dòng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik6 ji2 daai6 dung6
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
