Chinese idioms like 「扣盤捫燭」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Today, we explore the idiom 「扣盤捫燭」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Knock: knock; touch: touch. It is a metaphor that without practice, one’s knowledge is one-sided and it is difficult to gain true knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kòu pán mén zhú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kau3 pun2/pun4 mun4 juk1
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