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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「眾寡不敵」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Many: many; few: few; enemy: resist. The minority cannot defeat the majority.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng guǎ bù dí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung3 gwa2 bat1 dik6

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.