We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「良莠不一」.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「良莠不一」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Weeds: Foxtail grass, which looks very similar to millet, is often mixed among rice seedlings. It is a metaphor that there are both good and bad people mixed together. Difficult to distinguish. Same as “good and bad mixed together”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liáng yǒu bù yī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
leung4 yau5 bat1 yat1
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