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寸金难买寸光阴

cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn

7-character word Traditional 寸金難買寸光陰

What 寸金难买寸光阴 means

1. An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.
2. Time is precious.

The characters in 寸金难买寸光阴

• 寸cùna unit of length; inch; thumb
• 金jīngold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals
• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 买mǎito buy; to purchase
• 寸cùna unit of length; inch; thumb
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely
• 阴yīnovercast (weather); cloudy; shady

Example sentences

• 俗话说：一寸光阴一寸金；可俗话又说：寸金难买寸光阴！
  Súhuàshuō: yīcùnguāngyīnyīcùnjīn; kě súhuà yòu shuō: cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn!
  There is a proverb that goes "time is money", but there is another one that goes "money can't buy you time".

Words containing 寸金难买寸光阴

• 一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴yī cùn guāng yīn yī cùn jīn , cùn jīn nán mǎi cùn guāng yīn(lit.) an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying)…