Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「傾筐倒庋」 and how it’s used.
We’re presenting the idiom 「傾筐倒庋」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
A shelf for putting things. Empty all the contents of the boxes, big and small. A metaphor for taking out everything or checking thoroughly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng kuāng dǎo guǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
king1 kwaang1 dou2 gwai2
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.

