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Here, we present the idiom 「日月合璧」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Refers to the phenomenon that occurs when the Earth enters between the Sun and the Moon or when the Moon enters between the Earth and the Sun. “The sun and the moon are in conjunction” when a solar eclipse occurs on the new moon and a lunar eclipse occurs on the full moon.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rì yuè hé bì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat6 yut6 hap6 bik1

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