Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「刮垢磨光」, explained here.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「刮垢磨光」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Scrape away dirt and polish to a shine. A metaphor for making things shine again. It also means to think carefully.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guā gòu mó guāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwaat3 gau3 mo4 gwong1
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