Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「輕重緩急」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「輕重緩急」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
It means that among various things, there are primary and secondary ones, there are things that need to be done urgently and those that can be done more slowly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng zhòng huǎn jí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heng1 jung6/chung5/chung4 wun6 gap1
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.
