Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「甘之如薺」. Explanation below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「甘之如薺」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Shepherd’s purse: beet. Although tea is bitter, compared with the pain in my heart, it tastes as sweet as shepherd’s purse. Later it means that if you are happy to do something, even if it is bitter, it will be sweet. Same as “willing as shepherd’s purse”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gān zhī rú qí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam1 ji1 yu4 chai5
Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.
