Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「劌目鉥心」 here, with meaning and examples.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「劌目鉥心」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means working hard. A metaphor for putting in a lot of thought.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guì mù xù xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai3 muk6 seut6 sam1
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