Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「取而代之」, explained here.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「取而代之」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means to seize someone else’s position and replace it with your own. It now also refers to replacing one thing with another.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǔ ér dài zhī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui2 yi4 doi6 ji1
There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.
