Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「文昭武穆」 and how it’s used.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「文昭武穆」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Originally it referred to the large number of descendants of King Wen, but later it was used to refer to the proliferation of descendants in general.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wén zhāo wǔ mù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
man4 chiu1 mou5 muk6
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
