Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「瓦合之卒」, with more below.
Today’s idiom is 「瓦合之卒」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
Tile combination: Put broken tiles together. Pawn: soldier. Soldiers who fit together like broken tiles. A metaphor for an army without organization and discipline.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wǎ hé zhī zú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nga5 hap6 ji1 jeut1
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