Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「以管窺豹」 today for free with this guide.
Here’s the idiom 「以管窺豹」, with its definition and practical application described below.
If you look at a leopard through a bamboo tube, you can only see a spot on its body. It is a metaphor for narrow vision and short-sightedness.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ guǎn kuī bào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 gun2 kwai1 paau3
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