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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「朝聞夕死」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Hear the truth in the morning and die in the evening. Describes the urgency of pursuing truth or a certain belief.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cháo wén xī sǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jiu1 man4 jik6 sei2

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