Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「弄兵潢池」.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「弄兵潢池」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
A metaphor for raising an army. It means insignificant. Huangchi, a pool of stagnant water.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nòng bīng huáng chí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lung6 bing1 wong4 chi4
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.
