Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「隨珠彈雀」, as shown below.
Discover the idiom 「隨珠彈雀」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Use night-shining pearls to shoot birds. It is a metaphor for not knowing the importance of doing things, so that what you gain cannot compensate for what you lose.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
suí zhū dàn què
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui4 jyu1 taan4/daan6 jeuk2
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
