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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「白虹貫日」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
long white rainbow passed through the sun. The ancients believed that extraordinary events in the world would cause changes in celestial phenomena. In fact, this is not a rainbow but a halo, an atmospheric optical phenomenon.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái hóng guàn rì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 hung4 gun3 yat6
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