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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「德薄才鮮」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「德薄才鮮」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Being modest means that one lacks moral cultivation and is weak in talent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dé báo cái xiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dak1 bok6 choi4 sin1

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