Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「面折廷諍」 and how it’s used.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「面折廷諍」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Refers to speaking frankly and daring to give advice. Same as “face to face argument in court”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
miàn shé tíng zhèng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
min6/min2 jit3 ting4 jaang3
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