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This feature highlights the idiom 「銜石填海」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It is a metaphor for fighting tenaciously to the end to achieve a set goal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xián shí tián hǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
haam4 sek6 tin4 hoi2
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