Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「揚名四海」, detailed below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「揚名四海」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Become famous: spread fame. Four Seas: The ancients believed that China was surrounded by seas on all four sides, so they used “Four Seas” to refer to all parts of the country; it also refers to all parts of the world. It means that the reputation has spread everywhere.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yáng míng sì hǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeung2/yeung4 ming4/meng2 sei3 hoi2
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