4 characters Idiom and proverb 14 977

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 「倒三顛四」, with details below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「倒三顛四」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Describes a person’s incoherent speech and actions or his unclear mind and trance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo sān diān sì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou2 saam1 din1 sei3

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