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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「日角偃月」.

Discover the idiom 「日角偃月」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

In the old days, physiognomists called it a very noble appearance. Yanyue refers to a forehead that resembles a half-moon.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rì jiǎo yǎn yuè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat6 gok3 yin2 yut6

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