lit. the sun setting and the moon rising (idiom); fig. the passage of time
trad. 東兔西烏
Also written 東兔西烏【dōng tù xī wū】
Characters in this word
4东
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surname Dong
- Pinyin
- Dōng
- Traditional
- 東
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 5663 of 2500
兔
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variant of 兔[tu4]
- Pinyin
- tù
- Traditional
- 兎
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 13446 of 2500
西
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the West, abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2], Spanish
- Pinyin
- Xī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2156 of 2500
乌
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abbr. for country names that begin with 烏|乌[wu1]: Ukraine 烏克蘭|乌克兰[Wu1 ke4 lan2], Uzbekistan 烏茲別克斯坦|乌兹别克斯坦[Wu1 zi1 bie2 ke4 si1 tan3] etc, surname Wu
- Pinyin
- Wū
- Traditional
- 烏
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 12741 of 2500