Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「言多傷行」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「言多傷行」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Talking too much can easily lead to problems, which can cause your words and actions to be inconsistent and damage your character.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yán duō shāng háng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yin4 do1 seung1 haang4/hong4/hang4
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
