From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「空腹高心」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「空腹高心」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Empty in the stomach and arrogant in the eyes of others. Used to describe a person who has no real talent or knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kōng fù gāo xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung1 fuk1 gou1 sam1
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