日薄崦嵫

Traditional form:

日薄崦嵫

Pinyin (reading):

rìbó Yānzī

Definitions:

• lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom)
• fig. the day is drawing to an end
• the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)

Characters:

• 日 - sun; day; daytime
• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 崦 - a mountain in Kansu where the sun is supposed to set at night
• 嵫 - a hill in Shantung

Traditional characters:

• 日 - sun; day; daytime
• 薄 - thin, slight; meager, weak; poor, stingy
• 崦 - a mountain in Kansu where the sun is supposed to set at night
• 嵫 - a hill in Shantung