Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「舍本求末」 here, with meaning and examples.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「舍本求末」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
She: give up; Qiu: pursue. Abandon the fundamental and important things and pursue the trivial and secondary things. A metaphor for not grasping the fundamental links, but only focusing on minor issues.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shě běn qiú mò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se3 bun2 kau4 mut6
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