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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「通宵徹夜」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Means all night.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tōng xiāo chè yè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung1 siu1 chit3 ye6

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