Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「笑裏藏刀」, with details below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「笑裏藏刀」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Describes someone who appears to be kind but is actually insidious and vicious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiào lǐ cáng dāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu3 leui5 chong4 dou1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
