光阴 (光陰) guāngyīn
guāngyīn
noun
time
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Same as 时间 (CC-CEDICT '光陰'; Guoyu '光陰'; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 809)
Contained in
- 虚度光阴(虛度光陰) to waste time on worthless activities
- 寸金难买寸光阴(寸金難買寸光陰) An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time; Money can't buy you time.; Time is precious.
- 爱惜光阴(愛惜光陰) care for time
- 一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴(一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰) An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time.
- 一寸光阴一寸金(一寸光陰一寸金) An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold.; free time is to be treasured
- 光阴似箭(光陰似箭) time flies like an arrow
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 卷二百七十六 列傳第三十五 劉保勳 滕中正 劉蟠 孔承恭 宋璫 袁廓 樊知古 郭載 臧丙 徐休復 張觀 陳從信 張平 王繼昇 尹憲 王賓 安忠 Volume 276 Biographies 35: Liu Baoxun, Teng Zhongzheng, Liu Pan, Kong Chenggong, Song Dang, Yuan Kuo, Fan Zhigu, Guo Zai, Zang Bing, Xu Xiufu, Zhang Guan, Chen Congxin, Zhang Ping, Wang Jisheng, Yin Xian, Wang Bin, An Zhong History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷一百四十 志第九十三 樂十五 Volume 140 Treatises 93: Music 15 History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 第二回 Chapter 25 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
- 第三十七回 Chapter 37 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1
- 卷四百三十五 列傳第一百九十四 儒林五 范沖 朱震 胡安國子:寅 宏 寧 Volume 435 Biographies 194: Confucian Scholars 5 - Fan Chong, Zhu Zhen, Hu Anguo and sons: Yin, Hong, Ning History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 第九十一回 Chapter 91 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第一百十六回 Chapter 116 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 卷五十一 雜傳第三十九: 朱守殷 董璋 范延光 婁繼英 安重榮 安從進 楊光遠 Volume 51 Miscellaneous Biographies 31: Zhu Shouyin, Dong Zhang, Fan Yanguang, Lou Jiying, An Zhongrong, An Congjin, Yang Guangyuan New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1
Collocations
- 光阴迅速 (光陰迅速) 光陰迅速如此 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百十三 志第六十六 禮十六 Volume 113 Treatises 66: Rites 16 — count: 11
- 光阴荏苒 (光陰荏苒) 光陰荏苒 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十二回 Chapter 62 — count: 6
- 荏苒光阴 (荏苒光陰) 不覺荏苒光陰 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 3
- 光阴晚 (光陰晚) 爾光陰晚暮 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷57 列傳第22 盧思道 李孝貞 薛道衡 Volume 57 Biographies 22: Lu Sidao, Li Xiaozhen, Xue Daoheng — count: 2
- 迅速光阴 (迅速光陰) 迅速光陰 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十回 Chapter 10 — count: 2
- 光阴迟暮 (光陰遲暮) 光陰遲暮 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷75 列傳第40 儒林 Volume 75 Biographies 40: Confucian Scholars — count: 2