Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「牽強附會」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「牽強附會」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
To force something that has no meaning to have some meaning. It also means to pull unrelated things together and confuse them.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiān qiáng fù huì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hin1 keung4 fu6 wui5/wui2
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
