lái hóng qù yàn

Traditional: 來鴻去燕

来鸿去燕 (lái hóng qù yàn) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. the goose comes, the swallow goes (idiom); fig. always on the move”.

Meanings

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

Characters in 来鸿去燕

来lái · to come鸿hóng · eastern bean goose去qù · to go燕yàn · swallow (family Hirundinidae)

Related words

来to come去to go起来to stand up; to get up起来(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state回来to return; to come back出来to come out出来(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect)过来to come over过来see 過來|过来[guo4 lai2]过去(in the) past; former; previous过去(verb suffix)下来to come down

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