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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鏤肝鉥腎」 and how it’s used.

This feature highlights the idiom 「鏤肝鉥腎」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A metaphor for painstaking study.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lòu gān xù shèn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau6 gon1 seut6 san5

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