纸短情长 — Chinese idiom
纸短情长
zhǐ duǎn qíng cháng
Traditional: 紙短情長
Meaning
- a piece of paper is too short to convey my feelings
Character by character
- 纸zhǐpaper
- 短duǎnbrief, short; deficient, lacking
- 情qíngemotion, feeling, sentiment
- 长chánglong, lasting; to excel in
Idioms sharing a character
- 一纸空文 yī zhǐ kōng wén
- 敬惜字纸 jìng xī zì zhǐ
- 洛阳纸贵 Luò yáng zhǐ guì
- 纸上谈兵 zhǐ shàng tán bīng
- 纸醉金迷 zhǐ zuì jīn mí
- 跃然纸上 yuè rán zhǐ shàng
- 钻故纸堆 zuān gù zhǐ duī
- 一长一短 yī cháng yī duǎn
- 截长补短 jié cháng bǔ duǎn
- 扬长避短 yáng cháng bì duǎn
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