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Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「孺子可教」 and its usage.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「孺子可教」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

It means that young people can be trained.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rú zǐ kě jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu6 ji2 ho2 gaau3

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