Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「屠龍之技」, explained here.
Here, we present the idiom 「屠龍之技」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Tu: slaughter. The skill of killing dragons. The metaphor is technically sophisticated but not practical.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tú lóng zhī jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tou4 lung4 ji1 gei6
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