Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「一觴一詠」. Explanation below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「一觴一詠」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Shang: an ancient wine container, used to refer to drinking; Yong: reciting poetry. It used to refer to a gathering where scholars drank wine and recited poetry.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī shāng yī yǒng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 seung1 yat1 wing6
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
