Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「元元本本」, explained below.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「元元本本」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Yuanyuan: explore the origin; Benben: seek the root. Originally meant to explore the root causes and details of things. The latter refers to a detailed description of the entire cause and process of the matter, without omitting a single detail.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yuán yuán běn běn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yun4 yun4 bun2 bun2
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
