时过境迁

Traditional form:

時過境遷

Pinyin (reading):

shíguòjìngqiān

Definitions:

• things change with the passage of time (idiom)

Characters:

• 时 - time, season; period, era, age
• 过 - pass; to go across, to pass through
• 境 - boundary, frontier; area, region
• 迁 - to shift, to move; to transfer, to change

Traditional characters:

• 時 - time, season; period, era, age
• 過 - pass; to go across, to pass through
• 境 - boundary, frontier; area, region
• 遷 - to shift, to move; to transfer, to change