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
- 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.
- 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
- 虚度光阴(虛度光陰) to waste time on worthless activities
- 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.
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 2 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 卷三十六 列傳第二十四: 薛辯 薛寘 薛憕 Volume 36 Biographies 24: Xue Bian, Xue Zhi, Xue Cheng History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
- 第二十三回 Chapter 23 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第四十四回 Chapter 44 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第九十一回 Chapter 91 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第十五回 Chapter 15 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第十回 Chapter 10 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Journey to the West 西遊記 — 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
- 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
- 迅速光阴 (迅速光陰) 迅速光陰 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十回 Chapter 10 — count: 2