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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「壓卷之作」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Pressure: exceed. Refers to the most outstanding work in poetry, calligraphy and painting that surpasses other similar works.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yā juàn zhī zuò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

aat3 gyun2 ji1 jok3

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