相知恨晚 xiāngzhīhènwǎn to regret meeting so late Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 相知恨晚 xiāngzhīhènwǎn to regret meeting so late To regret that one has not known a friend for a longer time; used to express that two people have become such close friends that they wish they had met much earlier. Frequency Written text 0.003 per million Cross-References Synonym 相见恨晚 xiāngjiànhènwǎn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
相知恨晚 xiāngzhīhènwǎn to regret meeting so late To regret that one has not known a friend for a longer time; used to express that two people have become such close friends that they wish they had met much earlier. Frequency Written text 0.003 per million Cross-References Synonym 相见恨晚 xiāngjiànhènwǎn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)