Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「取長補短」 here, with meaning and examples.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「取長補短」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Learn from others’ strengths to make up for your own shortcomings. It also refers to learning from the strengths of one thing to make up for the weaknesses of another thing of the same kind.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǔ zhǎng bǔ duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheui2 cheung4/jeung2 bou2 dyun2
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.
