Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「曲突徙薪」. Explanation below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「曲突徙薪」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Qu: bend; Tu: chimney; Tu: migrate; Xin: firewood. Reshape the chimney into a curved one and move the firewood away from the stove. It means that only by taking measures in advance can disasters be prevented.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǔ tū xǐ xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kuk1 dat6 saai2 san1
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.
