Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「諸惡莫作」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「諸惡莫作」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
All kinds of evil: all kinds of bad things. Buddhist saying: Don’t do anything bad. In the old days, it was used to encourage people to do good.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhū è mò zuò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jyu1 ok3 mok6 jok3
The sheer number of Chinese idioms and their varied meanings make them fascinating to study. Let these materials assist you as you advance your Chinese skills and understanding.
