"Brevity" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 简短 | jiǎn duǎn | brief (statement, summary etc) / briefly / brevity |   |
| 朝露 | zhāo lù | morning dew / fig. precarious brevity of human life / ephemeral | |
| 简码 | jiǎn mǎ | brevity code | |
| 人生一世，草木一春 | rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn | Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence | |
| 少说为佳 | shǎo shuō wéi jiā | Few words are best. / Brevity is the soul of wit. | |
| 简洁是智慧的灵魂 | jiǎn jié shì zhì huì de líng hún | Brevity is the soul of wit (from Polonius' 波洛涅斯 / speech in Hamlet II:2 哈姆雷特). | |
