Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「斷壁殘璋」.
The idiom 「斷壁殘璋」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
Bi: a round, flat jade artifact with a hole in the middle; Zhang: a jade artifact that looks like half a gui. An incomplete zhangbi. A metaphor, although incomplete, is still a very precious thing.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duàn bì cán zhāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tyun5 bik1 chaan4 jeung1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
