Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「一家一計」, explained here.
This feature highlights the idiom 「一家一計」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Refers to monogamous family life or property. It is also extended to mean a family.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī jiā yī jì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 ga1 yat1 gai3/gai2
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.

