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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「辭多受少」, with more below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「辭多受少」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Reject: decline. Receive: accept. There are more people who refuse than those who accept.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cí duō shòu shǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi4 do1 sau6 siu2

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