4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 708

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Discover the idiom 「日中將昃」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

A metaphor for the fact that things will decline after reaching their peak. Same as “the sun sets at noon”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rì zhōng jiāng zè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat6 jung3/jung1 jeung1 jak1

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