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Expressing "nothing is more...than" with "moguoyu"
莫过于 can be easily understood as "cannot surpass." It is usually used in literary and formal Chinese to give emphasis to something, emphases that something is the "best". It is similar to how in English we might say "Nothing is more delicious, not even the world's best restaurants, than my mother's cooking."
- Keywords
- 莫过于 · 莫 · 过 · 于
- Used for
- Emphasizing
- Classification
- Sentence patterns
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