Numbers play an important role in Chinese culture. We’ve already introduced 5 Chinese number-related idioms (from 1 to 5) in the previous article. Thus, we will give you detailed explanations of the next five popular Chinese idioms with numbers (from 6 to 10) in the following article. 六神无主 (liù shén wú zhǔ) The meaning of 六(liù), 神(shén), 无(wú) and 主(zhǔ) is “six”, “god”, […]
You might already know that numbers play an important role in Chinese culture. For example, 8 is considered an auspicious number as it symbolizes richness and prosperity, whereas 4 is considered ominous due to the fact that its pronunciation is pretty similar to that of the word for “death”. However, the use of numbers in the […]
Last week, we already looked at some Chinese idioms with a “dog” character. Are you ready for 4 more? Let’s see which idioms we missed! 1. 狐朋狗友 (Hú Péng Gǒu Yǒu) 狐 (hú) is “fox”; 朋 (péng) means “friend”; 狗 (gǒu) is “dog”; 友 (yǒu) is another word for “friend”. So, this idiom literally […]
There’re so many chengyu (成语 chéngyǔ), or idioms, in Chinese language! Even if you study the language for several years, there’re still so many idioms you still don’t know. Today, we are going to look at four chengyu that have one thing in common: they all use dogs as a metaphor! Ready? Let’s explore! 1. […]
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