Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「小家碧玉」, detailed below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「小家碧玉」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
In the old days, it referred to a beautiful young woman from a small family.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiǎo jiā bì yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu2 ga1 bik1 yuk6
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