Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「聚米為山」 here, with meaning and examples.
This feature highlights the idiom 「聚米為山」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Ma Yuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty piled up rice to form a mountain to serve as a terrain model, and used it to analyze the military situation and march plan for the emperor in a very clear manner. Refers to the vivid description of the military situation and dangerous terrain.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jù mǐ wéi shān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeui6 mai5 wai6/wai4 saan1
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