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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「朝經暮史」. Explanation below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「朝經暮史」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Jing: refers to books that were regarded as classics in the old days; Shi: refers to historical books. Reciting classics and history all day long. Describes studying diligently.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cháo jīng mù shǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jiu1 ging1 mou6 si2

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