Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「望表知裏」.
Let’s dive into the idiom 「望表知裏」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
Infer the essence of things by observing their surface phenomena.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàng biǎo zhī lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong6 biu2 ji1 leui5
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.
