Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「老驥伏櫪」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「老驥伏櫪」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Ji: a good horse, a thousand-mile horse; 櫪: a horse trough, a place to raise horses. It is a metaphor that ambitious people still have great ambitions even when they are old.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lǎo jì fú lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lou5 kei3 fuk6 lik1
Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.
