Idioms like 「冥行擿埴」 are key to mastering Chinese. Start from characters, climb to idioms, and explore them with this free resource.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「冥行擿埴」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Ming: dark; Mingxing: walking at night; 擿: point; 埴: ground. Walking in the dark at night is like a blind person using a cane to touch the ground. It is a metaphor for studying knowledge without knowing the way and exploring in secret.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
míng háng tī zhí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ming4 haang4/hong4/hang4 tik1 jik6
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