Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「棄易求難」—details below.
Here, we present the idiom 「棄易求難」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Throw away the easy and seek the difficult.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qì yì qiú nán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hei3 yi6 kau4 naan4
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