Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「震古爍今」.
Here, we present the idiom 「震古爍今」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Shuo: the appearance of brightness. Shocked the ancient times and glorified the present world. Used to describe a very great career or achievement.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhèn gǔ shuò jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jan3 gu2 seuk3 gam1
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