We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「一唱三歎」.
Today, we explore the idiom 「一唱三歎」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
One person leads the singing, and three others follow along. Originally refers to music and singing that are simple and unadorned. Later it was used to describe poems that are subtle but profound in meaning.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī chàng sān tàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 cheung3 saam1 taan3
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