Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「甚囂塵上」 and its explanation.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「甚囂塵上」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Very: very; noisy: noisy. There was a lot of noise and dust was flying. Originally used to describe the state in which the army was busy with preparations. Later it was used to describe widespread news and heated discussions. It now mostly refers to extremely arrogant reactionary remarks.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shèn xiāo chén shàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sam6 hiu1 chan4 seung6
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