一日不見，如隔三秋
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See also: 一日不见，如隔三秋
Chinese[edit]
| one day; another day in the future | to not see; to not meet | as (if); such as | to separate; to stand or lie between; to divide to separate; to stand or lie between; to divide; to cut off |
three | autumn; fall; harvest time autumn; fall; harvest time; a swing | |||
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| trad. (一日不見，如隔三秋) | 一日 | 不見 | ， | 如 | 隔 | 三 | 秋 | |
| simp. (一日不见，如隔三秋) | 一日 | 不见 | ， | 如 | 隔 | 三 | 秋 | |
| Literally: “Not seeing (somebody) for a day is like being apart for three autumns.” | ||||||||
Etymology[edit]
From the Classic of Poetry, poem 72 (《詩經·王風·采葛》):
- 彼采蕭兮，一日不見，如三秋兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Bǐ cǎi xiāo xī, yīrì bùjiàn, rú sān qiū xī. [Pinyin]
- There he is gathering the oxtail-southern-wood!
A day without seeing him, Is like three years!
彼采萧兮，一日不见，如三秋兮。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
Pronunciation[edit]
Idiom[edit]
一日不見，如隔三秋
Derived terms[edit]
- 一日三秋 (yīrìsānqiū)
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