4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 505

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 「學老於年」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「學老於年」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Refers to the erudition of young people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xué lǎo yú nián

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hok6 lou5 yu1 nin4

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