Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「養癰遺患」.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「養癰遺患」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
If you leave a poisonous sore untreated, it will cause trouble later. It is a metaphor that if one condones and shelters bad people and bad things, he will suffer disaster as a result.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǎng yōng yí huàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeung5 yung1 wai4 waan6
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
