Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「錙銖必較」. Explanation below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「錙銖必較」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
錙 and 竹: both were very small units of weight in ancient times. Describes someone who is very stingy and must care about even the smallest amount of money. It also refers to a narrow-minded person who cares about even the smallest things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zī zhū bì jiào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji1 jyu1 bit1 gaau3
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