From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「輕財好士」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「輕財好士」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means to despise money and value scholars. Same as “value scholars over wealth”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng cái hǎo shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heng1 choi4 hou2 si6/si2
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