Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「破矩為圓」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「破矩為圓」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Change the square into a round one. A metaphor for simplifying the criminal law.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pò jǔ wéi yuán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
po3 geui2 wai6/wai4 yun4
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