江河日下 — Chinese idiom
江河日下
jiāng hé rì xià
Meaning
- rivers pour away by the day ; going from bad to worse
- deteriorating day by day
Character by character
- 江jiānglarge river; the Yangtze; surname
- 河hériver, stream; the Yellow river
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Idioms sharing a character
- 大江南北 Dà jiāng nán běi
- 指点江山 zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
- 文江学海 wén jiāng xué hǎi
- 江洋大盗 jiāng yáng dà dào
- 江郎才尽 Jiāng láng cái jìn
- 翻江倒海 fān jiāng dǎo hǎi
- 万里江山 wàn lǐ jiāng shān
- 过江之鲫 guò jiāng zhī jì
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 口若悬河 kǒu ruò xuán hé
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