Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「出言成章」 and how it’s used.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「出言成章」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
The original meaning is to make the words spoken become standard, and later it is often used to describe quick thinking.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chū yán chéng zhāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheut1 yin4 sing4 jeung1
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