Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「剝極將複」 here, with meaning and examples.
We’re presenting the idiom 「剝極將複」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
In the Bo hexagram, yin is strong and yang is weak, while in the Fu hexagram, yin reaches its extreme and It is a metaphor that everything will turn into the opposite extreme and good times will come after bad times.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bāo jí jiāng fú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mok1 gik6 jeung1 fuk1
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