Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「觥籌交錯」 for your learning.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「觥籌交錯」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Gong: an ancient wine vessel; Chou: chips for drinking games. The wine glasses and chips were placed in a mess. Describes the lively scene when many people gather together to drink.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng chóu jiāo cuò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwang1 chau4/chau2 gaau1 cho3
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