立竿見影 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 立竿见影 lìgānjiànyǐng ㄌㄧˋ ㄍㄢ ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄥˇ set up a pole and immediately see its shadow (idiom) lit. to get instant results fig. Character by character 立(lì)surname Li 竿(gān)pole 見(jiàn)see 影(yǐng)picture A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0