Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「告往知來」, with more below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「告往知來」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Having told this, you can know another point. Metaphors can help us understand the cause and effect similarities and differences between things and know others based on this.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gào wǎng zhī lái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gou3 wong5 ji1 loi4
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.

