Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「氣急敗喪」, explained below.
Discover the idiom 「氣急敗喪」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Describes being extremely absurd or angry. Same as “extremely angry and frustrated”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qì jí bài sàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hei3 gap1 baai6 song1/song3
Chinese idioms are vast in number, each carrying unique meanings and usages. With such variety, there’s a lot to learn and appreciate. Hopefully, these resources will aid you on your journey to mastering Chinese.

