Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「水月觀音」, explained here.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「水月觀音」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Buddhist scriptures say that Guanyin Bodhisattva has thirty-three different forms of Dharmakaya. The one in a painting that depicts her looking at the reflection of the moon in the water is called Water-Moon Guanyin. See “The Lotus Sutra: Universal Door Chapter”. Later it was used to describe a person’s clean appearance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shuǐ yuè guān yīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seui2 yut6 gun1 yam1
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.
