We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「海底撈月」.
The idiom 「海底撈月」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
Go into the water and catch the moon. It is a metaphor that doing something that is impossible to achieve will only result in a waste of effort.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hǎi dǐ lāo yuè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hoi2 dai2 lou1/laau4 yut6
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