4 characters Idiom and proverb 18 975

Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「被甲據鞍」 here, with meaning and examples.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「被甲據鞍」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Describes a military general who is still ambitious despite his old age.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bèi jiǎ jù ān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 gaap3 geui3 on1

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