Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「摶空捕影」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「摶空捕影」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
It’s like chasing shadows. A metaphor for speaking and doing things without any factual basis.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tuán kōng bǔ yǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tyun4 hung1 bou6 ying2
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
