Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「扯空砑光」 and how it’s used.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「扯空砑光」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
To lie: to tell lies. Polishing: Polishing paper and cloth with stone to make them shiny is called “polishing”; it is a metaphor for taking advantage of others’ glory. Refers to using sweet words to cheat people out of their money.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chě kōng yà guāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
che2 hung1 nga6 gwong1
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
