Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「通宵徹旦」 and how it’s used.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「通宵徹旦」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Means all day and all night. Same as “all night long”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tōng xiāo chè dàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tung1 siu1 chit3 daan3
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