Chinese education begins with characters, continues with phrases, and grows into idioms. This free lesson covers the idiom 「換羽移宮」. Learn its usage below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「換羽移宮」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
See “Moving Palace and Changing Feathers”. Also known as “moving business and changing feathers”. It means changing the key of a piece of music. Gong, Shang and Yu are the names of the five tones in ancient music. Later it is also used to describe a change in the content of a matter.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huàn yǔ yí gōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wun6 yu5 yi4 gung1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
