Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「尾生抱柱」. Explanation below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「尾生抱柱」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
According to legend, Weisheng made an appointment with a woman to meet on a bridge. He waited for a long time but the woman did not show up. The water level rose, so he hugged the bridge pillar and died. The quote comes from “Zhuangzi·Dao Zhi”. Later it was used to illustrate the importance of sticking to a covenant.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wěi shēng bào zhù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mei5 saang1/sang1 pou5 chyu5
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