We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「生吞活剝」, explained below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「生吞活剝」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Originally it meant to rigidly copy the words and phrases from other people’s poems. It is now used to metaphorically describe the act of rigidly accepting or mechanically applying experience, theories, etc.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shēng tūn huó bāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saang1/sang1 tan1 wut6 mok1
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