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来鸿去燕

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4-character word Traditional 來鴻去燕

What 来鸿去燕 means

1. lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move

The characters in 来鸿去燕

• 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 鸿hóngeastern bean goose; great; large
• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last
• 燕yànswallow (family Hirundinidae); old variant of 宴