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 「匪石匪席」, with details below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「匪石匪席」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Neither stone nor mat. It means that stone can be turned but the heart cannot be turned, mat can be rolled up but the heart cannot be rolled up. It is a metaphor for being determined and never changing one’s mind.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fěi shí fěi xí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fei2 sek6 fei2 jik6
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