Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「千金一笑」, with its explanation below.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「千金一笑」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
It’s like saying that a smile is worth a thousand gold. Spend a thousand gold to buy a smile. It used to mean spending a huge sum of money to win the favor of a beautiful woman.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiān jīn yī xiào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chin1 gam1 yat1 siu3
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