Blog Tag - Idioms

Mandarin Monday: Learning Common Chinese Idioms
Learning Chinese can be a real pain in the pigu. Besides the writing system that shares no common roots with most of the languages used in the...
Don't End Up a Lightbulb by Mastering These 10 Three-Character Chinese Idioms
Learning Chinese can be a real pain in the pigu. Besides a writing system that shares no common roots with most languages of the Western world, tones...
Know Your Rats: The Complicated Image Problem of Rats in Chinese Culture
Having celebrated the first dawn of the new decade, things are in full swing to welcome the new lunar year 春节 (chūn jié). Given that we're currently...
The Lighter Side of China: The Idioms' Guide To Chinese
On an early winter morning 16 years ago, I entered my office in a former school building in the north-central part of Beijing and said hello to our...