孔夫子拿笤帚,斯文扫地
孔夫子拿笤帚,斯文掃地
孔夫子拿笤帚,斯文掃地
Confucius picking up a broom: refinement sweeps the floor
Saying俗语俗語
Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Widely known
- Meaning
- Said when culture or scholars are disgraced, or when an educated person behaves shamefully. Critical or ironic.
- Wordplay
- 扫地 (sǎodì) means literally 'sweep the floor' and figuratively 'be brought to ruin', so 斯文扫地 reads as the scholar sweeping and culture being trashed.
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- Simplified
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孔夫子拿笤帚,斯文扫地
- Traditional (Taiwan)
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孔夫子拿笤帚,斯文掃地
- Pinyin
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Kǒngfūzǐ ná tiáozhou,Sīwénsǎodì
- Bopomofo
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ㄎㄨㄥˇ ㄈㄨ ㄗˇ ㄋㄚˊ ㄊㄧㄠˊ ˙ㄓㄡ,ㄙ ㄨㄣˊ ㄙㄠˇ ㄉㄧˋ
Written with
HSK 2 vocabulary,
at CEFR level
A1.
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