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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「眾口鑠金」, with details below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「眾口鑠金」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Thallium: melt. It describes that public opinion is so powerful that it can even melt metal. A metaphor that unanimous opinion can confuse right and wrong.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng kǒu shuò jīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung3 hau2 seuk3 gam1

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