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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「一穀不登」, with details below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「一穀不登」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Refers to a poor harvest. Same as “one valley does not rise”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī yù bù dēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 guk1 bat1 dang1

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