After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「敝鼓喪豚」. Meaning and usage are below.
The idiom 「敝鼓喪豚」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
Bi: broken, ruined; Sang: lose; Tun: pig. It means beating drums and cooking pigs in order to ask gods to cure the disease, but the disease is still not cured. Describes something that is wasteful and useless.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì gǔ sàng tún
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bai6 gu2 song1/song3 tyun4
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
