Chinese Idioms about Love & Relationships
Chengyu about love, devotion, and rapport — 一见钟情, 白头偕老, 心心相印 — the classical idioms that turn up in wedding cards, song lyrics, and romantic fiction.
Love at first sight.
Grow old together — until your heads are both white with age.
Hearts imprinted on each other — in perfect mutual understanding.
Feelings match, minds agree — a perfect rapport.
Treat each other like honoured guests — mutual respect in marriage.
Raising the food tray to eyebrow level — exemplary marital respect.
Wing to wing in pair-flight — a devoted couple inseparable in life.
Two children with no guardedness between them — innocent childhood companions.
To love something so much that one is unwilling to let it go; to be very fond of.
Joys and sorrows, partings and reunions; the vicissitudes of life.
Not to leave for even an inch; to stay very close.
Reluctant to leave; unwilling to part.
To long for something day and night; to yearn for something even in one's dreams.
Unable to restrain one's emotions; to be overcome with emotion; to be unable to control oneself.
Childhood sweethearts; a couple who grew up together.
With all one's heart and soul; wholeheartedly; devotedly.
eyes brimming with tears; moved to tears
As if drunk and stupefied; lost in rapture; completely absorbed.
deep affection and profound friendship
As eternal and unchanging as the universe; everlasting; forever.
in every possible way; meticulous
Be perfectly happy to; be completely willing.
Wholeheartedly; with single-hearted devotion.
Unwilling to part; full of reluctance.
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