Helping you learn Chinese for free is our aim. This idiom and proverb series offers phrases with great depth and versatility. Let’s look at 「蓋棺定論」 and how to use it.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「蓋棺定論」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
It means that a person’s right and wrong, merits and demerits can only be concluded after his death. Same as “the final judgment”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gài guān dìng lùn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
goi3/koi3 gun1 ding6 leun6
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