From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「智昏菽麥」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「智昏菽麥」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Refers to the inability to distinguish between beans and wheat. Describes ignorance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhì hūn shū mài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji3 fan1 suk6 mak6
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