光阴荏苒 — Chinese idiom
光阴荏苒
guāng yīn rěn rǎn
Traditional: 光陰荏苒
Meaning
- How time flies!
Character by character
- 光guānglight; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 阴yīnthe female principle; dark, shaded; hidden, implic
- 荏rěnherb, mint; soft, pliable
- 苒rǎnlush, luxuriant; ordered, sequential; the passage
Idioms sharing a character
- 五光十色 wǔ guāng shí sè
- 光前裕后 guāng qián yù hòu
- 光天化日 guāng tiān huà rì
- 光明磊落 guāng míng lěi luò
- 光耀门楣 guāng yào mén méi
- 光芒万丈 guāng máng wàn zhàng
- 光说不做 guāng shuō bù zuò
- 光说不练 guāng shuō bù liàn
- 光阴似箭 guāng yīn sì jiàn
- 光风霁月 guāng fēng jì yuè
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