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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「多端寡要」. Explanation below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「多端寡要」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Duan: clue; Yao: important. There are too many clues and I don’t know the point.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duō duān guǎ yào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

do1 dyun1 gwa2 yiu3

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