寸金难买寸光阴 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 寸金難買寸光陰 cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄐㄧㄣ ㄋㄢˊ ㄇㄞˇ ㄘㄨㄣˋ ㄍㄨㄤ ㄧㄣ An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom) Money can't buy you time. Time is precious. Character by character 寸(cùn)a unit of length 金(jīn)surname Jin 难(nán)difficult 买(mǎi)buy 寸(cùn)a unit of length 光(guāng)light 阴(yīn)surname Yin A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0