Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「博而寡要」 and how it’s used.
The idiom being introduced now is 「博而寡要」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
Very knowledgeable, but not getting to the point.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bó ér guǎ yào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bok3 yi4 gwa2 yiu3
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