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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「日月如梭」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「日月如梭」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Shuttle: A tool used to pull the warp thread when weaving. The sun and the moon come and go like shuttles. Used to describe how time passes quickly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rì yuè rú suō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat6 yut6 yu4 so1

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