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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「烏合之眾」 today for free with this guide.

Here, we present the idiom 「烏合之眾」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Like a flock of crows temporarily gathered together. A metaphor for a group of people who are temporarily assembled and have no organization or discipline.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wū hé zhī zhòng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wu1 hap6 ji1 jung3

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