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 「救火投薪」, with details below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「救火投薪」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
To throw wood into a fire in order to put out the flames. It is a metaphor that taking the wrong approach will not only fail to solve the problem, but will make the problem worse.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiù huǒ tóu xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau3 fo2 tau4 san1
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.
