Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
光阴
time available
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
time available
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 光阴 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 光阴 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
There is a proverb that goes "time is money", but there is another one that goes "money can't buy you time".
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 光阴.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 光阴.
Directly before
- 寸光阴1
- 卖掉光阴1
Directly after
- 光阴飞逝1
- 光阴飞似1
- 光阴一去不复返1
- 光阴换1
- 光阴在1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 光阴
What does 光阴 mean in Chinese?
光阴 (guāngyīn) means time available.
How do you pronounce 光阴?
光阴 is pronounced guāngyīn.
Is 光阴 an HSK word?
光阴 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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