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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「星霜屢移」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「星霜屢移」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Star frost: The stars move in a cycle once a year, and frost falls every autumn, so star frost is used to refer to the years. Indicates the change of years.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīng shuāng lǚ yí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sing1 seung1 leui5 yi4

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