Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「骨鯁之臣」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「骨鯁之臣」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Bone-stuck: a metaphor for being upright. An upright and loyal official.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gǔ gěng zhī chén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwat1 kang2 ji1 san4
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