4 characters Idiom and proverb 10 05

Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「言多必失」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「言多必失」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

If you talk too much, you will definitely make mistakes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán duō bì shī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 do1 bit1 sat1

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