时隐时现 — Chinese idiom
时隐时现
shí yǐn shí xiàn
Traditional: 時隱時現
Meaning
- appearing and disappearing
- intermittently visible
Character by character
- 时shítime, season; period, era, age
- 隐yǐnto hide, to conceal; secret, hidden
- 时shítime, season; period, era, age
- 现xiànto appear, to manifest; current, now
Idioms sharing a character
- 一时半刻 yī shí bàn kè
- 不识时务 bù shí shí wù
- 不识时变 bù shí shí biàn
- 俗随时变 sú suí shí biàn
- 切中时弊 qiè zhòng shí bì
- 切中时病 qiè zhòng shí bìng
- 及时行乐 jí shí xíng lè
- 名噪一时 míng zào yī shí
- 因时制宜 yīn shí zhì yí
- 应天顺时 yìng tiān shùn shí
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