Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「大江東去」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「大江東去」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
The water of the Yangtze River flows eastward. Later it was borrowed as the name of a ci tune. It often means that old traces disappear and history moves forward.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà jiāng dōng qù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 gong1 dung1 heui3
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
