光阴荏苒
Traditional form:
光陰荏苒
Pinyin (reading):
guāngyīn-rěnrǎn
Definitions:
- (idiom) How time flies!
Characters:
- 光 - light; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 阴 - the female principle; dark, shaded; hidden, implicit, secret
- 荏 - herb, mint; soft, pliable
- 苒 - lush, luxuriant; ordered, sequential; the passage of time
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