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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「懸梁刺骨」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Describes studying hard.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xuán liáng cì gǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun4 leung4 chi3 gwat1

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