Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「打入冷宮」, with details below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「打入冷宮」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Beat: combined with certain verbs to become a word, it means to do something; Cold Palace: ancient emperors placed their concubines who had fallen out of favor under house arrest in a remote palace. A metaphor for people not being taken seriously or things being put aside.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dǎ rù lěng gōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
da2 yap6 laang5 gung1
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.
