Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「醋海翻波」. Explanation below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「醋海翻波」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Vinegar: a metaphor for jealousy. A metaphor for the entanglements between men and women caused by love.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cù hǎi fān bō
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chou3 hoi2 faan1 bo1
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