Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「犯顏苦諫」.
The idiom 「犯顏苦諫」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
It refers to the courage to offend the authority of the monarch or elders and give direct advice to their faces.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fàn yán kǔ jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan6/faan2 ngaan4 fu2 gaan3
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.
