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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「破釜沉舟」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「破釜沉舟」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A metaphor for being determined to do something to the end no matter what.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pò fǔ chén zhōu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

po3 fu2 cham4 jau1

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