Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「商彞周鼎」, with more below.
Here, we present the idiom 「商彞周鼎」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Yi and Ding: ritual vessels such as Ding and Zun used for sacrifices in ancient times. Bronze ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. A general term for extremely precious antiques.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shāng yí zhōu dǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seung1 yi4 jau1 ding2
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