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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「辭不達義」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

It means that one cannot express one’s meaning accurately when speaking or writing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cí bù dá yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi4 bat1 daat6 yi6

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