Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「裾馬襟牛」 for your learning.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「裾馬襟牛」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Like a horse or a cow wearing human clothes. A metaphor for being brainless and ignorant. Also written as “lapel-hem horse and cow”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jū mǎ jīn niú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geui1 ma5 kam1 ngau4
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