| 昏定晨省 |
hūn dìng chén xǐng |
seeing to bed in the evening and visiting in the morning (ancient filial duty) |
| 昏 |
hūn |
muddle-headed / twilight / to faint / to lose consciousness |
| 昏 |
hūn |
old variant of 昏 |
| 定 |
dìng |
to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc) / to congeal; to coagulate / (literary) definitely |
| 晨 |
chén |
morning / dawn / daybreak |
| 省 |
shěng |
to save; to economize; to be frugal / to omit; to delete; to leave out / province / provincial capital / a ministry (of the Japanese government) |
| 省 |
xǐng |
(bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders) |