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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「莫衷一是」.

Learn about the idiom 「莫衷一是」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Can’t decide which one is right. Describes differences of opinion and lack of consensus.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mò zhōng yī shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mok6 jung1/chung1 yat1 si6

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