Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「彈冠相慶」.
Discover the idiom 「彈冠相慶」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
To dust off the hat and prepare to become an official. It refers to when one person in the officialdom becomes an official or is promoted, his colleagues will congratulate each other for having a new official position.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dàn guàn xiàng qìng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taan4/daan6 gun3 seung2 hing3
The sheer number of Chinese idioms and their varied meanings make them fascinating to study. Let these materials assist you as you advance your Chinese skills and understanding.
