Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「倚門傍戶」—details below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「倚門傍戶」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Lean, beside: rely on. It is a metaphor for not having any opinions of one’s own when studying, but just copying what others say.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ mén bàng hù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi2 mun4 bong6/pong4 wu6
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