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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「持之以恆」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Hold: adhere to; Heng: perseverance. Keep at it for a long time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chí zhī yǐ héng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi4 ji1 yi5 hang4

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