Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「繃扒弔拷」, with details below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「繃扒弔拷」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
An ancient form of punishment. They were forcibly stripped of their clothes, tied up, hung up and tortured. Bend: to tie. Take off: take off.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēng bā diào kǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bang1 pa4 diu3 haau1/haau2
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
