We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「貴少賤老」, explained below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「貴少賤老」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Value the young and strong and despise the old and weak. Same as “the young are valued and the old are despised.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guì shǎo jiàn lǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai3 siu2 jin6 lou5
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
