Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「窮奢極欲」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「窮奢極欲」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Poverty: extreme; luxury: extravagance; desire: the concept of enjoyment. Luxury and greed reached the extreme.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qióng shē jí yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kung4 che1 gik6 yuk6
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