Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「西台痛哭」 here, with meaning and examples.
We’re presenting the idiom 「西台痛哭」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
At the end of the Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang failed in his resistance against the Yuan Dynasty and was killed. Eight years later, Xie Ao and his friends climbed the West Tower to pay tribute with tears, and wrote “Record of Crying on the West Tower” to record the event. Later it was used to express the pain of losing a country.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī tái tòng kū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai1 toi2/toi4 tung3 huk1
With an extensive collection of idioms, Chinese offers a wealth of expressions to explore. These learning resources aim to make your journey smoother and more rewarding.
