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Definition(s) for: 光阴似箭

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
光阴似箭 guāng yīn sì jiàn - time flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies!

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 78,204 40,643

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
guāng- light; ray (CL:道[dao4])
- bright; shiny
- only; merely
- used up; finished
- to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
yīn- surname Yin
yīn- overcast (weather)
- cloudy
- shady
- Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang)
- negative (electric.)
- feminine
- moon
- implicit
- hidden
- genitalia
yīn- variant of 陰|阴[yin1]
shì- used in 似的[shi4de5]
- to seem
- to appear
- to resemble
- similar
- -like
- pseudo-
- (more) than
- old variant of 似[si4]
jiàn- arrow
- CL:支[zhi1]

Other Words Containing 光阴似箭

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo