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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「大辯若訥」.

Today, we explore the idiom 「大辯若訥」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Ne: slow in speech and not good at speaking. A truly eloquent person may appear to be very dumb in speaking. It means that a person who is good at debate speaks in a reserved and reserved manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dà biàn ruò nè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai6 bin6 yeuk6 neut6

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