Chinese Idioms - Chengyu

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    one day apart seems like three years

    yī
    一
    rì
    日
    bù
    不
    jiàn
    见
    ，
    rú
    如
    gé
    隔
    sān
    三
    qiū
    秋
    一日不见，如隔三秋
    yī rì bù jiàn , rú gé sān qiū

    Word by word translation of this Chinese idiom

    一
    yī
    one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
    日
    rì
    sun / day / date, day of the month / abbr. for 日本[Rì běn], Japan
    不
    bù
    not / no / (negative prefix)
    见
    jiàn
    to see / to meet / to appear (to be sth) / to interview
    xiàn
    to appear / also written 現|现[xiàn]
    如
    rú
    as / as if / such as
    隔
    gé
    to separate / to partition / to stand or lie between / at a distance from / after or at an interval of
    三
    sān
    three / 3 / surname San
    秋
    qiū
    autumn / fall / harvest time / a swing / surname Qiu / old variant of 秋[qiū]
    Data is based on CC-CEDICT. See the full data in action here MDBG Chinese-English dictionary.

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