Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「無中生有」 and how it’s used.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「無中生有」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Taoists believe that all things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence. To say something exists when it does not exist. A metaphor for something that is completely untrue and fabricated.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wú zhōng shēng yǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mou4 jung1 sang1 yau5
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
