We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「文房四士」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「文房四士」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Commonly refers to pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Same as “Four Treasures of the Study”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wén fáng sì shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
man4 fong2 sei3 si6/si2
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