From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「瓜剖豆分」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.
We’re presenting the idiom 「瓜剖豆分」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Like a melon being cut open and beans coming out of their pods. A metaphor for the country being divided by people.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guā pōu dòu fèn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwa1 fau2 dau2 fan1
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