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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「無濟於事」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Ji: benefit, help. It doesn’t help or benefit the matter. Metaphors don’t solve problems.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wú jì yú shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mou4 jai3 yu1 si6

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