归心似箭 — Chinese idiom
归心似箭
guī xīn sì jiàn
Traditional: 歸心似箭
Meaning
- with one's heart set on speeding home
Character by character
- 归guīto return, to go back; to return to, to revert
- 心xīnheart; mind; soul
- 似sìresembling, similar to; as if, to seem
- 箭jiànarrow; a type of bamboo
Idioms sharing a character
- 不醉不归 bù zuì bù guī
- 命归黄泉 mìng guī Huáng quán
- 夜不归宿 yè bù guī sù
- 完璧归赵 wán bì guī Zhào
- 实至名归 shí zhì míng guī
- 改邪归正 gǎi xié guī zhèng
- 早出晚归 zǎo chū wǎn guī
- 归根究底 guī gēn jiū dǐ
- 殊途同归 shū tú tóng guī
- 水落归槽 shuǐ luò guī cáo
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