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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「索然寡味」. Meaning and usage are below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「索然寡味」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Rare: few, lacking. Looking meaningless or uninterested.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suǒ rán guǎ wèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sok3 yin4 gwa2 mei6/mei2

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