We strive to offer you free Chinese learning resources. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, which are rich in meaning and can be used in various situations. Today’s idiom is 「下塞上聾」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「下塞上聾」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
塞: blocked. Deafness: loss of hearing in the ears. The lower part is blocked and the hearing is impaired at the upper part. A metaphor for the fact that the true situation cannot be communicated up and down.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xià sāi shàng lóng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ha6 sak1 seung5/seung6 lung4
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