Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「付之一笑」 for your learning.
Learn about the idiom 「付之一笑」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Respond with a smile. A metaphor for not caring about or taking something seriously.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fù zhī yī xiào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu6 ji1 yat1 siu3
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