A concise overview of 「雞鳴戒旦」 and how to use it, plus pinyin provided in Mandarin and Cantonese.

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Here’s the idiom 「雞鳴戒旦」, with its definition and practical application described below.

For fear of missing dawn and delaying work, he got up before daybreak.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jī míng jiè dàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gai1 ming4 gaai3 daan3

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