东方不亮西方亮
dōng​fāng​bù​liàng​xī​fāng​liàng

there are other options

  • created sense approved 东方不亮西方亮/東方不亮西方亮 · dōng​fāng​bù​liàng​xī​fāng​liàng · there are other options — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东方不亮西方亮 / 東方不亮西方亮

    dōng​fāng​bù​liàng​xī​fāng​liàng

    there are other options

    lit. if it isn't bright in the east, it will be bright in the west; used to mean that if something does not work out in one place, there are always other opportunities or solutions elsewhere

    东方 (literal) → 东方/東方 · dōng​fāng · east 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 亮 (literal) → 亮 · liàng · to shine 西方 (literal) → 西方 · xī​fāng · the west 亮 (literal) → 亮 · liàng · to shine

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense