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 「麥穗兩岐」, with details below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「麥穗兩岐」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
①One wheat has two ears. In the old days, it was considered a good omen, a sign of a good harvest. It is also used to praise outstanding achievements in administration. ② Used as a metaphor to describe two similar things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
mài suì liǎng qí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mak6 seui6 leung5 kei4
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