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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「鐵打銅鑄」, with more below.

Here’s the idiom 「鐵打銅鑄」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Made of iron and cast in copper. Describes something that is very strong.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiě dǎ tóng zhù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tit3 da2 tung4 jyu3

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