4 characters Idiom and proverb 20 125

Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「惇默寡言」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「惇默寡言」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Steady and few words.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dūn mò guǎ yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

deun1 mak6 gwa2 yin4

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