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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「老朽無能」 and its explanation.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「老朽無能」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Decadent: old and outdated. Describes how old people are and cannot do anything.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lǎo xiǔ wú néng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lou5 nau2 mou4 nang4

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