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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「老弱殘兵」 explained, free of charge.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「老弱殘兵」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

A metaphor for people who have poor working ability due to old age, physical weakness or other reasons.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lǎo ruò cán bīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lou5 yeuk6 chaan4 bing1

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