After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「上烝下報」. Meaning and usage are below.
Discover the idiom 「上烝下報」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
莊: adultery between a younger man and an older woman; 報: adultery between an older man and a younger woman. Generally refers to incest between men and women.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shàng zhēng xià bào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seung5/seung6 jing1 ha6 bou3
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