Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「狗馬聲色」. Explanation below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「狗馬聲色」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Good dogs, fine horses, music, and women. It refers to the ways of enjoyment of the exploiting class, such as raising dogs, riding horses, listening to music, and visiting prostitutes. It refers to the extreme enjoyment of luxury and extravagance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gǒu mǎ shēng sè
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gau2 ma5 seng1 sik1
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
