Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「舟水之喻」 here, with meaning and examples.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「舟水之喻」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Boat: ship. A metaphor for a boat and water: water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. The common people can help the king establish his court, or they can rise up in resistance and overthrow the court.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhōu shuǐ zhī yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jau1 seui2 ji1 yu6
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