Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「理不勝辭」, detailed below.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「理不勝辭」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Reason cannot prevail over words. It means that due to the lack of ability in reasoning and argumentation, even though the writing is rich and colorful, the reasoning is not sufficient.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lǐ bù shèng cí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lei5 bat1 sing3 chi4
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