Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「蠡測管窺」, explained here.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「蠡測管窺」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Li: a ladle; Guan: a bamboo tube; Kui: to look through a small hole. Use a ladle to measure the sea and look at the sky through the small hole in a bamboo tube. It is a metaphor for having a narrow and one-sided view and being unable to see the whole picture of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lí cè guǎn kuī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lai5 chak1 gun2 kwai1
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