Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「切磋琢磨」 here, with meaning and examples.
We’re presenting the idiom 「切磋琢磨」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Process bones, horns, jade and stones into utensils. It is a metaphor for discussing with each other when studying or researching problems, learning from each other’s strengths and correcting each other’s weaknesses.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiē cuō zhuó mó
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chit3 cho1 deuk3 mo4
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