Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「不存芥蒂」. Explanation below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「不存芥蒂」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Grudge: Originally written as “蒂芥”, it means a small obstruction, which is a metaphor for the resentment or unhappiness accumulated in the heart. Don’t harbor resentment or unhappiness in your heart. Describes a person who is broad-minded and magnanimous.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù cún jiè dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 chyun4 gaai3 dai3
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