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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「言三語四」.

The idiom 「言三語四」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Words and expressions: to say and to speak. Used to describe a scene where many people are talking and discussing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán sān yǔ sì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 saam1 yu5 sei3

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