Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「人多闕少」, explained below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「人多闕少」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
It means that there are many people seeking official positions but few vacancies. “Que” used to refer to a vacant official position.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén duō què shǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 do1 kyut3 siu2
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.
