To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「亡羊之歎」 explained, free of charge.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「亡羊之歎」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Lost: lost. Sigh: sigh. Sigh for the lost sheep. It is a metaphor for exploring knowledge, wandering on the wrong path, and ending up with nothing but regrets. Also known as “The Lost Sheep Goes astray.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wáng yáng zhī tàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong4 yeung4 ji1 taan3
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