Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「小時了了」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「小時了了」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
It means that we cannot conclude that a person will achieve something in the future just because he is smart when he is young.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiǎo shí le le
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu2 si4 liu5 liu5
The collection of Chinese idioms is enormous, with each one holding its own meaning and purpose. We hope these resources can assist you in better understanding and learning Chinese.
