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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「積勞成病」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「積勞成病」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

He fell ill due to long-term work and overwork. Same as “illness caused by overwork”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jī láo chéng bìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jik1 lou4 sing4 beng6

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