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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「苦心孤詣」—details below.

Here’s the idiom 「苦心孤詣」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to study hard and reach a level that others cannot reach. It also means to take great pains to find a solution to a problem.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kǔ xīn gū yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu2 sam1 gu1 ngai6

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