Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「簠簋不飭」 here, with meaning and examples.
The featured idiom 「簠簋不飭」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Fu and Gui: both are ancient food utensils, also used for sacrificial offerings; bu zhi: not in order. Used to refer to corruption. This phrase was often used in the old days to impeach corrupt officials.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fǔ guǐ bù chì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fu2 gwai2 bat1 chik1
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.
