The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「指矢天日」, detailing its meaning and use.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「指矢天日」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Point to the sky and the sun and swear to express your feelings. Same as “swearing to the heavens and sun”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ shǐ tiān rì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 chi2 tin1 yat6
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