Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「琴心劍膽」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「琴心劍膽」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
A metaphor for having both sentiment and courage (often used in old novels to describe talented people who are both literary and martial).
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qín xīn jiàn dǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kam4 sam1 gim3 daam2
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
