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日落西山

rì luò xī shān

4-character word

What 日落西山 means

1. the sun sets over western hills (idiom); the day approaches its end
2. fig. time of decline
3. the end of an era
4. Sic transit gloria mundi

The characters in 日落西山

• 日rì(bound form) sun; day; day of the month
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out
• 西xīwest
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on

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