Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「求知若渴」 and its explanation.
This feature highlights the idiom 「求知若渴」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Know: knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge is as urgent as thirst for water. Describes a very urgent desire for knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiú zhī ruò kě
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kau4 ji1 yeuk6 hot3
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