Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「象牙之塔」 here, with meaning and examples.
This feature highlights the idiom 「象牙之塔」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It refers to the artistic realm of personal fantasy that is detached from social reality by bourgeois artists who advocate “art for art’s sake”. It also refers to the small world of intellectuals who are detached from real life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiàng yá zhī tǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeung6 nga4 ji1 taap3
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