東方不亮西方亮 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 东方不亮西方亮 dōngfāngbùliàngxīfāngliàng ㄉㄨㄥ ㄈㄤ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄤˋ ㄒㄧ ㄈㄤ ㄌㄧㄤˋ if it isn't bright in the east, it'll be bright in the west (idiom) if something doesn't work here, it might work somewhere else Character by character 東(dōng)surname Dong 方(fāng)surname Fang 不(bù)no 亮(liàng)bright 西(xī)the West 方(fāng)surname Fang 亮(liàng)bright A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0