Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「月明星稀」 and its usage.
Discover the idiom 「月明星稀」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
When the moon is bright, the stars appear sparse.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yuè míng xīng xī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yut6 ming4 sing1 hei1
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