Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「鼠屎汙羹」, as shown below.
Here’s the idiom 「鼠屎汙羹」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for adding bad things, thus destroying the original beautiful things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ shǐ yú gēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syu2 si2 wu1 gang1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
