Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「羚羊掛角」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「羚羊掛角」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Antelopes sleep at night with their horns hanging on trees, with their feet off the ground, to avoid danger. In the old days, it was often used to describe the transcendental artistic conception of poetry.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
líng yáng guà jiǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ling4 yeung4 gwa3 gok3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
