Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「功名富貴」, with details below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「功名富貴」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Refers to getting promoted and getting rich.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gōng míng fù guì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gung1 ming4/meng2 fu3 gwai3
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