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Discover the idiom 「月明星稀」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

When the moon is bright, the stars appear sparse.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuè míng xīng xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yut6 ming4 sing1 hei1

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