Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「紅繩係足」, with details below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「紅繩係足」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
In the old days, it referred to a marriage between a man and a woman introduced by a matchmaker.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hóng shéng xì zú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung4 sing2 hai6 juk1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
