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Chinese Traditional: 光陰
Chinese Simplified: 光阴
Pinyin: guang1 yin1
Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄤㄧㄣ
English Meaning: time

Example Sentences:

一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰。
一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴。
yi1 cun4 guang1 yin1 yi1 cun4 jin1, cun4 jin1 nan2 mai3 cun4 guang1 yin1.
Money cannot buy you time.
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Related Words:

光光

guāng

[polite] 1. light, ray 2. only, merely 3. (particle used after verbs to show exhaustion or completion) 4. glory, pride 5. bright, shiny 6. to make bare, to be naked 7. (used in polite expressions)

Here: light, ray

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陰阴

yīn

1. yin, feminine 2. negative (blood, electric) 3. cloudy, overcast 4. genitalia 5. the nether world 6. implicit, hidden 7. moon 8. dark 9. shade, shadow

Here: shade, shadow

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