- precious; valuableMetaphorical term for something extremely precious or a large sum of money, often used in idioms regarding the value of land or time
- 难 難 adjectivedifficultdifficult; hard to do; troublesome; not easy; problematic; the opposite of 容易
- 买 買 verbto buyto buy; to purchase; to acquire with money; also used for hiring or renting
- 寸 adjectivevery little(bound form) Extremely short, small, or little
- 光阴 光陰 nountimetime available; time as it passes