To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「灰身泯智」 explained, free of charge.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「灰身泯智」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Buddhist term. It refers to the elimination of all physical and mental troubles, which is the state of the Hinayana Arhat. Same as “the body is reduced to ashes and wisdom is extinguished”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huī shēn mǐn zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fui1 san1 man3 ji3
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