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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「不足掛齒」. Explanation below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「不足掛齒」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Not enough: not worth it; mention it: mention it in passing. Indicates that it is not worth mentioning.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù zú guà chǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 juk1 gwa3 chi2

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