Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「郢人斤斫」, explained below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「郢人斤斫」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
A metaphor for mature and superb skills. Same as “Ying carpenter wielding an axe”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐng rén jīn zhuó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ying5 yan4 gan1 jeuk3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
