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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「難如登天」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Describes something difficult to do.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

nán rú dēng tiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

naan4 yu4 dang1 tin1

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