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天狗食日
  tin1 gau2 sik6 jat6   jyutping
  tian1 gou3 shi2 ri4   pinyin
eclipse; lit. sky dog eats the sun

In China of old, there was a myth about the solar eclipse in that they used to believe that the sun was eaten by the sky-dog and gongs were beaten to scare off the sky dog thus making the sun return.
Idiom

Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
天狗食日

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Characters in this word:

 tin1  -  sky, heaven
 gau2  -  dog
 sik6 zi6  -  eat; food
 jat6  -  sun; day
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