昏定晨省
hūn dìng chén xǐng
Pinyin

Definition

昏定晨省
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hūn dìng chén xǐng
  1. seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yī dìng
  1. 1 surely
  2. 2 certainly
  3. 3 necessarily
  4. 4 fixed
  5. 5 a certain (extent etc)
  6. 6 given
  7. 7 particular
  8. 8 must
líng chén
  1. 1 very early in the morning
  2. 2 in the wee hours
dìng
  1. 1 to set
  2. 2 to fix
  3. 3 to determine
  4. 4 to decide
  5. 5 to order
gǎo dìng
  1. 1 to fix
  2. 2 to settle
  3. 3 to wangle
zǎo chén
  1. 1 early morning
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (20)

一日之计在于晨
yī rì zhī jì zài yú chén
  1. 1 make your day's plan early in the morning (idiom)
  2. 2 early morning is the golden time of the day
一言为定
yī yán wéi dìng
  1. 1 (idiom) it's a deal
  2. 2 that's settled then
人定胜天
rén dìng shèng tiān
  1. 1 man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature
利令智昏
lì lìng zhì hūn
  1. 1 to lose one's head through material greed (idiom)
命中注定
mìng zhōng zhù dìng
  1. 1 decreed by fate (idiom)
  2. 2 destined
  3. 3 fated