Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「舍本逐末」, explained below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「舍本逐末」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
She: give up; Zhu: 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 zhú mò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se3 bun2 juk6 mut6
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.
