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 「亢極之悔」, explained below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「亢極之悔」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Kang: supreme; Hui: disaster. It means that people in high positions should guard against arrogance, otherwise they will fail and regret it. Later it was also used to describe that arrogant people are bound to bring disaster upon themselves.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kàng jí zhī huǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kong3 gik6 ji1 fui3
Chinese idioms encompass an enormous variety, each rich in its meanings and uses. We’ve compiled these resources to support your efforts in learning the language.
