Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「十轉九空」, with details below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「十轉九空」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Nine times out of ten you go, you come back empty-handed. Describes the situation of frequently losing money in gambling.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí zhuǎn jiǔ kōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 jyun3 gau2 hung1
There are countless Chinese idioms, all rich in meaning and application. Each one is unique, and we hope this information helps you explore and enhance your Chinese language knowledge.
