宵衣旰食 — Chinese idiom
宵衣旰食
xiāo yī gàn shí
Meaning
- to dress before light and not eat before dark
- diligently attending to official matters
Character by character
- 宵xiāonight, evening, darkness
- 衣yīcloth; clothes, apparel; dress, coat
- 旰gànsunset, dusk; evening
- 食shífood; to eat
Idioms sharing a character
- 良宵美景 liáng xiāo měi jǐng
- 通宵达旦 tōng xiāo dá dàn
- 天衣无缝 tiān yī wú fèng
- 牛衣对泣 niú yī duì qì
- 白衣苍狗 bái yī cāng gǒu
- 相体裁衣 xiàng tǐ cái yī
- 节衣缩食 jié yī suō shí
- 缩衣节食 suō yī jié shí
- 腰金衣紫 yāo jīn yī zǐ
- 衣不蔽体 yī bù bì tǐ
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