宵衣旰食 Save Sign in to save words xiāoyīgànshí ㄒㄧㄠ ㄧ ㄍㄢˋ ㄕˊ to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom) diligently attending to official matters Character by character 宵(xiāo)night 衣(yī)clothes 旰(gàn)sunset 食(shí)eat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0