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千里搭长棚，没有不散的宴席

qiān lǐ dā cháng péng , méi yǒu bù sàn de yàn xídictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-1298a259594167c0. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

千里搭長棚，沒有不散的宴席 千里搭长棚，没有不散的宴席 [qian1 li3 da1 chang2 peng2 , mei2 you3 bu4 san4 de5 yan4 xi2] /even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)/

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Other forms in these source records: 千里搭長棚，沒有不散的宴席

  • 千
    qiān

    thousand / used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiū qiān]

  • 里
    lǐ

    lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[lǐ] / li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhèn] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lín] levels

    Lǐ

    surname Li

  • 搭
    dā

    to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train)

  • 长
    cháng

    long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point / forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus / spare (Taiwan pr. [zhàng])

    zhǎng

    chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

  • 棚
    péng

    shed / canopy / shack

  • 没
    méi

    (negative prefix for verbs) have not / not

    mò

    drowned / to end / to die / to inundate

  • 有
    yǒu

    to have / there is / (bound form) having / with / -ful / -ed / -al (as in 有意[yǒu yì] intentional)

  • 不
    bù

    no / not so / (bound form) not / un-

  • 散
    sàn

    to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack

    sǎn

    scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine

  • 的
    de

    of / ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pí gé de] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pǎo táng r de] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xīn de] "new one") / also pr. [dì] or [di] in poetry and songs

    dī

    (bound form) a taxi / a cab (abbr. for 的士[dī shì])

    dí

    really and truly

    dì

    (bound form) bull's-eye / target

  • 宴
    yàn

    (bound form) to entertain at a banquet / (bound form) banquet / feast / (literary) peaceful / at ease

  • 席
    xí

    woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc / woven mat (variant of 席[xí])

    Xí

    surname Xi

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.