事過境遷 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 事过境迁 shìguòjìngqiān ㄕˋ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄥˋ ㄑㄧㄢ The issue is in the past, and the situation has changed (idiom). It is water under the bridge. Character by character 事(shì)matter 過(guò)cross 境(jìng)border 遷(qiān)move Other words read shìguòjìngqiān shiguojingqian with other tones 時過境遷 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0