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 「契船求劍」, with details below.
The featured idiom 「契船求劍」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
metaphor for sticking to established rules and being unable to adapt. Later it was often written as “Looking for the Sword on a Boat”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qì chuán qiú jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kai3 syun4 kau4 gim3
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