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This introduction highlights the idiom 「蜀犬吠日」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Shu: the abbreviation of Sichuan Province; barking: the barking of a dog. The original meaning is that Sichuan rains a lot, and dogs there seldom see the sun, so they bark when the sun comes out. A metaphor for being surprised by something unusual.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ quǎn fèi rì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
suk6 hyun2 fai6 yat6
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