Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「眾星拱北」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「眾星拱北」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Gong: to surround and protect; Bei: refers to the North Star. The stars in the sky guard the North Star. In the old days, it referred to a virtuous monarch who was supported by his subjects all over the world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhòng xīng gǒng běi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jung3 sing1 gung2 bak1
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