From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「弦外有音」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
This feature highlights the idiom 「弦外有音」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
A metaphor for a sentence that contains an indirect, unstated meaning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xián wài yǒu yīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yin4 ngoi6 yau5 yam1
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