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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「當務始終」 for your learning.

Today, we explore the idiom 「當務始終」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

We should strive to see things through to the end.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dāng wù shǐ zhōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dong3/dong1 mou6 chi2 jung1

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