Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「破瓜之年」 and its explanation.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「破瓜之年」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
The Chinese character for “gua” (melon) can be divided into two “eight characters”, so old poems and essays refer to a girl’s sixteenth birthday as the “year of breaking the melon”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pò guā zhī nián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
po3 gwa1 ji1 nin4
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
