Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「望文生義」 here, with meaning and examples.
The idiom being introduced now is 「望文生義」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Wen: text, referring to the literal meaning; Yi: meaning. Without understanding the exact meaning of a word or phrase, people make far-fetched and inaccurate interpretations based on its literal meaning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàng wén shēng yì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong6 man4 saang1/sang1 yi6
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