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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「精忠報國」, with more below.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「精忠報國」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Be loyal to your country and sacrifice everything for it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīng zhōng bào guó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jing1/jeng1 jung1 bou3 gwok3

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