Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「敖世輕物」 and how it’s used.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「敖世輕物」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Ao, the same as “arrogant”. Despise the world and look down on others. It also refers to arrogance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
áo shì qīng wù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ngou4 sai3 heng1 mat6
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