情不自禁 — Chinese idiom
情不自禁
qíng bù zì jīn
Meaning
- cannot refrain from; cannot help; cannot but
Character by character
- 情qíngemotion, feeling, sentiment
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 自zìself; private, personal; from
- 禁jīnto restrict, to prohibit, to forbid; to endure
Idioms sharing a character
- 一见钟情 yī jiàn zhōng qíng
- 七情六欲 qī qíng liù yù
- 不情之请 bù qíng zhī qǐng
- 不近人情 bù jìn rén qíng
- 人之常情 rén zhī cháng qíng
- 入情入理 rù qíng rù lǐ
- 反脸无情 fǎn liǎn wú qíng
- 合情合理 hé qíng hé lǐ
- 含情脉脉 hán qíng mò mò
- 径情直遂 jìng qíng zhí suì
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