Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「去本就末」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「去本就末」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Refers to abandoning farming to engage in business.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qù běn jiù mò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heui3 bun2 jau6 mut6
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