4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 887

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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「良莠不分」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Weeds: Foxtail grass, which looks very similar to millet, is often mixed among rice seedlings. There are good people and bad people, mixed together, difficult to distinguish.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liáng yǒu bù fèn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leung4 yau5 bat1 fan1

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