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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「起早貪黑」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Get up early and go to bed late. Describes hard work.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qǐ zǎo tān hēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hei2 jou2 taam1 hak1
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