Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「敗興而歸」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「敗興而歸」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Disappointment: Feeling depressed when encountering something that is inconsistent with one’s imagination. Returned disappointed.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bài xìng ér guī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baai6 hing3 yi4 gwai1
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.

