Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「鬼哭粟飛」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「鬼哭粟飛」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Legend has it that when Cangjie created Chinese characters, it shocked the world, caused millet to rain from the sky, and ghosts to cry at night.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guǐ kū sù fēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai2 huk1 suk1 fei1
Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.
