Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「見錢眼紅」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「見錢眼紅」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
My eyes turn red when I see money. Describes a person who is greedy for money. Same as “money-sighted”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiàn qián yǎn hóng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gin3 chin2 ngaan5 hung4
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