To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「伯玉知非」 explained, free of charge.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「伯玉知非」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Bo Yu: Qu Yuan, whose courtesy name was Boyu, was a native of Wei during the Spring and Autumn Period; Fei: not right. A metaphor for knowing that something was wrong in the past.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bó yù zhī fēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak3 yuk6 ji1 fei1
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