光阴似箭 — Chinese idiom
光阴似箭
guāng yīn sì jiàn
Traditional: 光陰似箭
Meaning
- time flies like an arrow ; How time flies!
Character by character
- 光guānglight; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 阴yīnthe female principle; dark, shaded; hidden, implic
- 似sìresembling, similar to; as if, to seem
- 箭jiànarrow; a type of bamboo
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
- 光阴荏苒 guāng yīn rěn rǎn
- 光风霁月 guāng fēng jì yuè
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