Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「風花雪月」. Explanation below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「風花雪月」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Originally refers to the natural scenery often described in old poems and essays. Later it was used to describe poems and essays that are full of flowery words but have poor and empty content. It also refers to love affairs or a dissolute life of debauchery.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēng huā xuě yuè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung1 fa1 syut3 yut6
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