4 characters Idiom and proverb 8 995

Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「困而學之」 and its explanation.

This feature highlights the idiom 「困而學之」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Trapped: confused. When you are confused, learn.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kùn ér xué zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kwan3 yi4 hok6 ji1

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