Free Chinese learning materials for you! This series uncovers idioms and proverbs, rich in meaning. Let’s break down 「鵲巢鳩主」 and its usage.
Here, we present the idiom 「鵲巢鳩主」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
This metaphor refers to a woman who gets married and lives in her husband’s home. Later it was used to describe the act of forcibly occupying other people’s houses, land, wives, etc. Same as “the magpie’s nest is occupied by the dove”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
què cháo jiū zhǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeuk3 chaau4 gau1 jyu2
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