Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「圖窮匕見」.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「圖窮匕見」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Map: map; exhaust: to the end; see: to appear. It is a metaphor that when things develop to the end, the truth or original intention is revealed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tú qióng bǐ jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tou4 kung4 bei3 gin3
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
