Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「八拜之交」, explained below.
Discover the idiom 「八拜之交」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Eight Bows: originally referred to the etiquette of young people paying homage to their elders when they were close friends in ancient times; 交: friendship. Old friends become brothers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bā bài zhī jiāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baat3 baai3 ji1 gaau1
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.
