Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「城下之辱」, with more below.
Discover the idiom 「城下之辱」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Refers to the humiliation of kneeling and begging for peace when the enemy is at the gate.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chéng xià zhī rǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sing4 ha6 ji1 yuk6
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