相思债

相思債
xiāngsīzhài
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 the debt of lovesickness
  2. 2 the burden of longing one owes a beloved
  3. 3 an unpayable debt of love

Examples

Tā qiàn xià yī bǐ xiāngsīzhài, shí nián dōu méi huán qīng.
He owes a debt of longing that ten years haven't paid off.
Cí lǐ xiě jìn le nǚzǐ de xiāngsīzhài.
The ci poem spells out every ounce of a woman's debt of lovesickness.

Tips

culture
Classical poetic figure: love is a debt — once you miss someone deeply, you owe a (debt) that can only be settled by being together. Much used in Song and Yuan poetry.

Stroke Order

xiāng
zhài