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Here is the Chinese idiom 「優柔寡斷」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Indecisive: hesitant; few: few. Refers to being hesitant and lacking decisiveness in doing things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yōu róu guǎ duàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau1 yau4 gwa2 dyun6

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