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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「一錢不值」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Learn about the idiom 「一錢不值」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Not worth a single copper coin. The metaphor is worthless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī qián bù zhí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 chin2 bat1 jik6

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