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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「夙興夜處」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Get up early and go to bed late. Describes diligence. Same as “early to rise and late to sleep”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sù xìng yè chù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

suk1 hing1 ye6 chyu5

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