Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「鄰女窺牆」 here, with meaning and examples.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「鄰女窺牆」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
During the Warring States Period, there was a beautiful woman next door to Song Yu who fell in love with him. For three years, she often climbed over the wall to spy on him, but Song Yu was never tempted. Later it was used to describe a woman’s admiration for a man.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lín nǚ kuī qiáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
leun4 neui5 kwai1 cheung4
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