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众口难调

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4-character word Traditional 眾口難調

What 众口难调 means

1. it's difficult to please everyone (idiom)

The characters in 众口难调

• 众zhòng(bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 调tiáoto harmonize; to reconcile; to blend

Example sentences

• 众口难调。
  It is difficult to satisfy everyone.