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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「寡廉鮮恥」.

The idiom 「寡廉鮮恥」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Rare and fresh: few. It used to refer to being dishonest and shameless. Now it refers to shamelessness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǎ lián xiān chǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwa2 lim4 sin1 chi2

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