一面之缘 — Chinese idiom
一面之缘
yī miàn zhī yuán
Traditional: 一面之緣
Meaning
- one-time encounter (e.g. 有一面之缘 (yǒu yī miàn zhī yuán) "to have met once before")
Character by character
- 一yīone; a, an; alone
- 面miànface; surface, side; plane, dimension
- 之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following ph
- 缘yuánreason, cause; fate; margin, hem
Idioms sharing a character
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一丘之貉 yī qiū zhī hé
- 一之为甚 yī zhī wéi shèn
- 一干二净 yī gān èr jìng
- 一了百了 yī liǎo bǎi liǎo
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 一五一十 yī wǔ yī shí
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 一元复始 yī yuán fù shǐ
- 一刀两断 yī dāo liǎng duàn
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