The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「舍短取長」, detailing its meaning and use.
Discover the idiom 「舍短取長」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Short: shortcoming, disadvantage; long: strengths, advantage. Don’t care about other people’s shortcomings, take their strengths and hire them.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shě duǎn qǔ zhǎng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se3 dyun2 cheui2 cheung4/jeung2
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
