Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「稱薪而爨」 here, with meaning and examples.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「稱薪而爨」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Xin: firewood; Cuan: making fire and cooking. Weighed the firewood to cook. A metaphor for paying attention to small things and not looking at the big picture.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chēng xīn ér cuàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching1 san1 yi4 chyun3
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