liú​shuǐ​wú​qíng

ruthless passage of time

流水无情 流水無情 liú​shuǐ​wú​qíng
ruthless passage of time
Flowing water is indifferent to human emotion, meaning that things go their own way independently of man's will or that time passes relentlessly.
unrequited affection
Describes a situation where one person has feelings but the other is indifferent; often used in the set phrase 落花有意,流水无情 luò​huā​yǒu​yì​liú​shuǐ​wú​qíng

Frequency

Written text
0.108 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)