  Symmetry breaking is a fundamental concept in understanding quantum phases of
matter, studied so far mostly through the lens of local order parameters.
Recently, a new entanglement-based probe of symmetry breaking has been
introduced under the name of \textit{entanglement asymmetry}, which has been
employed to investigate the mechanism of dynamical symmetry restoration. Here,
we provide a universal formula for the entanglement asymmetry of matrix product
states with finite bond dimension, valid in the large volume limit. We show
that the entanglement asymmetry of any compact -- discrete or continuous --
group depends only on the symmetry breaking pattern, and is not related to any
other microscopic features.
