Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「邯鄲學步」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「邯鄲學步」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Handan: the capital of Zhao State during the Warring States Period; learning to walk: learning to walk. It is a metaphor for imitating others poorly and forgetting what you originally knew.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hán dān xué bù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon4 daan1 hok6 bou6
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