贴窗花

窗口 chuāngkǒu HSK 6 #6,093

window (physical opening) / service window; counter (e.g., ticket window) / window (computing)

车窗 chēchuāng #8,589

car window; vehicle window / window of a train, bus, or other vehicle

窗含西岭千秋雪 chuānghánxīlǐngqiānqiūxuě

my window frames the thousand-year snows of the western ridge / a distant snowy peak framed like a painting in the window / lit. window holds the western ridge's thousand-autumn snow

春城无处不飞花 chūnchéngwúchùbùfēihuā

in the spring city there is nowhere without flying petals / (of Chang'an in spring) blossoms drift on every street / (lit.) spring city, no place where petals do not fly

贴 tiē HSK 4 #2,261

to stick; to paste; to glue / to post (a notice); to affix / to keep close to; to nestle against

铁窗 tiěchuāng #23,762

barred window / prison cell window / prison (figurative)

春花秋月何时了 chūnhuāqiūyuèhéshíliǎo

when will spring flowers and autumn moons come to an end? / (fig.) a weary cry — how long must this cycle of beauty and pain go on? / (lit.) spring-flowers autumn-moons, what-time end

春有百花秋有月 chūnyǒubǎihuāqiūyǒuyuè

spring has its hundred flowers, autumn has its moon / (fig.) every season brings its own grace — wanting nothing else is itself freedom / (lit.) spring has hundred-flowers, autumn has moon

东风夜放花千树 dōngfēngyèfànghuāqiānshù

the east wind by night blooms a thousand trees of flowers / (of the Lantern Festival) lanterns blaze like spring blossoms overnight / (lit.) east wind at night releases a thousand trees of flowers

流水落花春去也 liúshuǐluòhuāchūnqùyě

flowing water, fallen petals — spring too is gone / (fig.) the pained sigh of an irrecoverable past (and a lost kingdom) / (lit.) flowing-water fallen-flower spring gone indeed