典din2故gu3

English

1. classical story or quote from the literature
2. the story behind sth
3. literary or historical reference of a saying or part of a literary workunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. （作為某啲名稱、叫法嘅來源而被引用嘅）歷史故事或者古人文章（量詞：個）unreviewed?

Examples

• 人要從狗猛酒酸的典故中吸取教訓。

  One must learn a lesson from the difficult situations and bad conditions in one's life.

  Tatoeba · holger_reinherzen CC BY

• unreviewed?

  成語典故

  the historical reference of idioms

• unreviewed?

  街道命名典故

  story behind the naming of streets