Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「慈烏反哺」 today for free with this guide.
Here, we present the idiom 「慈烏反哺」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Ci: to provide for; Ciwu: a kind of crow, which is said to be able to feed its mother in return; returning food to its mother: when the crow chicks grow up, they will bring food to feed their mother. A metaphor for children repaying their parents for their upbringing.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cí wū fǎn bǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chi4 wu1 faan2 bou6
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