Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「裁月鏤雲」 here, with meaning and examples.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「裁月鏤雲」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Cut the bright moon and carve the clouds. It is a metaphor for the embellishment of words and the novelty of description of scenery in poetry.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cái yuè lòu yún
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
choi4 yut6 lau6 wan4
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