Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「愛理不理」. Explanation below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「愛理不理」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Not interested in replying. Metaphor for being indifferent and rude to others
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
ài lǐ bù lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
oi3 lei5 bat1 lei5
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