An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.; Time is precious.
trad. 寸金難買寸光陰
Also written 寸金難買寸光陰【cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn】
Characters in this word
6寸
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a unit of length, inch, thumb
- Pinyin
- cùn
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 15323 of 2500
金
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surname Jin, surname Kim (Korean), Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- Pinyin
- Jīn
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 1377 of 2500
难
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difficult (to...), problem, difficulty, difficult, not good
- Pinyin
- nán
- Traditional
- 難
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1327 of 2500
买
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to buy, to purchase
- Pinyin
- mǎi
- Traditional
- 買
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 356 of 2500
光
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light; ray (CL:道[dao4]), bright; shiny, only; merely, used up; finished, to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- Pinyin
- guāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1998 of 2500
阴
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surname Yin
- Pinyin
- Yīn
- Traditional
- 陰
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 25572 of 2500