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This feature highlights the idiom 「沉吟未決」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Chen Yin: to ponder deeply, extended to mean hesitation; Jue: to decide. It describes a person who, when faced with a difficult problem, talks to himself and cannot make a decision.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chén yín wèi jué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cham4 ngam4 mei6 kyut3

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