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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 「一天星鬥」.

Here’s the idiom 「一天星鬥」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for things being numerous and complicated.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī tiān xīng dòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 tin1 sing1 dau3

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