寸金难买寸光阴

An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.

a unit of length / inch / thumb

surname Jin / surname Kim (Korean) / Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234)

gold / chemical element Au / generic term for lustrous and ductile metals / money / golden / highly respected / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold

to buy / to purchase

light / ray / CL:道[dao4] / bright / only / merely / to use up

time available

surname Yin

overcast (weather) / cloudy / shady / Yin (the negative principle of Yin and Yang) / negative (electric.) / feminine / moon / implicit / hidden / genitalia

variant of 陰|阴[yin1]

lit. An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time. (idiom) / fig. Time is precious and must be treasured.