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This introduction highlights the idiom 「參商之虞」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Shen and Shang: names of constellations. Shen is in the west and Shang is in the east, one comes and goes, and they will never meet each other. Yu: worry. It is a metaphor for the worry of people being separated and unable to meet again. It also refers to the possibility of disharmony.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cān shāng zhī yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaam1/sam1 seung1 ji1 yu4
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