Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「十不當一」 and how it’s used.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「十不當一」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Ten are not worth one. It means that although there are many people, they are useless.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí bù dāng yī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 bat1 dong3 yat1
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