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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「夙夜匪解」, with its usage explained below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「夙夜匪解」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Describes working carefully and diligently day and night. Same as “work hard day and night without slacking off”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sù yè fěi jiě

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

suk1 ye6 fei2 gaai2

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