Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「揭竿而起」. Explanation below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「揭竿而起」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
They cut down tree trunks to use as weapons and raised bamboo poles as flags to resist. Refers to the people’s uprising.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiē gān ér qǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kit3 gon1 yi4 hei2
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