Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「滄海遺珠」, with more below.
Here’s the idiom 「滄海遺珠」, with its definition and practical application described below.
The pearls in the sea are missed by the pearl divers. A metaphor for buried talents or buried talents.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cāng hǎi yí zhū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chong1 hoi2 wai4 jyu1
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