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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「業精於勤」, with details below.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「業精於勤」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Industry: academic studies; jing: proficient in; yu: to be in; qin: diligent. Academic excellence is achieved through diligence.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yè jīng yú qín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yip6 jing1/jeng1 yu1 kan4

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