Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「社鼠城狐」.
Let’s dive into the idiom 「社鼠城狐」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
She: land temple. Foxes on the city wall and rats in the temple. A metaphor for a villain who relies on power to do evil and is difficult to get rid of.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shè shǔ chéng hú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se5 syu2 sing4 wu4
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