Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「遺臭千秋」, explained below.
Here’s the idiom 「遺臭千秋」, with its definition and practical application described below.
After death, one’s bad reputation will spread and he will be reviled forever. Same as “leave a bad reputation for eternity”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yí chòu qiān qiū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wai4 chau3 chin1 chau1
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.
