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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「自始自終」, with more below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「自始自終」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

From the beginning to the end. It means to be consistent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì shǐ zì zhōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 chi2 ji6 jung1

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