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We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「寡不敵眾」, explained below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「寡不敵眾」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Few: few; enemy: resist; many: many. A small number of people cannot defeat a large number of people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǎ bù dí zhòng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwa2 bat1 dik6 jung3

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.