Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「意馬心猿」 and its explanation.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「意馬心猿」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It describes a restless mind, which is uncontrollable like a monkey jumping or a horse running.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yì mǎ xīn yuán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi3 ma5 sam1 yun4
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