Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「一筆抹煞」, with its explanation below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「一筆抹煞」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
To obliterate: to cancel. Draw one stroke and erase everything. A metaphor for rashly denying all achievements and advantages.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī bǐ mò shà
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 bat1 maat3/mut3 saat3
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.
