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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「著作等身」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
It is used to describe a lot of writings, so much so that if they were stacked up they would be as tall as the author.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhe zuò děng shēn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jyu3 jok3 dang2 san1
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