Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「馮唐頭白」 here, with meaning and examples.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「馮唐頭白」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Feng Tang served in three dynasties of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu, he was selected as a virtuous and capable person, but he was too old to hold an official position. Expressing regret for being born at the wrong time or expressing old age. Same as “Feng Tang is getting old”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
féng táng tóu bái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung4 tong4 tau4 baak6
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.
