旷日持久 — Chinese idiom
旷日持久
kuàng rì chí jiǔ
Traditional: 曠日持久
Meaning
- protracted
- long and drawn-out
Character by character
- 旷kuàngbroad, vast, wide; empty
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
- 持chíto hold, to support, to sustain
- 久jiǔlong ago; a long time
Idioms sharing a character
- 心旷神怡 xīn kuàng shén yí
- 旷古未有 kuàng gǔ wèi yǒu
- 旷古未闻 kuàng gǔ wèi wén
- 一日三秋 yī rì sān qiū
- 一日之雅 yī rì zhī yǎ
- 一日千里 yī rì qiān lǐ
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 世风日下 shì fēng rì xià
- 来日方长 lái rì fāng cháng
- 偷天换日 tōu tiān huàn rì
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