禮輕情意重 [礼轻－－－]

Jyutping lai5 hing1 cing4 ji3 cung4
Pinyin lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng

Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. proverb
    it's the thought that counts

禮輕情意重 [礼轻－－－]

Jyutping lai5 hing1 cing4 ji3 zung6
Pinyin lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    礼轻情意重。
    禮輕情意重。
    lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng 。
    • It's the thought that counts.