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Where mint sprouts, perilla sprouts too — one appetite's success invites the neighbor's imitation.
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hút độc rắn
Hút độc rắn — 'sucking snake venom': slang for oral sex.
húy tử tham sanh
Dreading death, clinging to life — the instinct all creatures share, and honor sometimes overrules.
hơi đâu mà
indicating the action one's about to state is not necessary: no use
hơn chẳng bõ hao
The winnings don't cover the wear — victory at a net loss.
hư bột hư đường
Spoiled flour, spoiled sugar — a job botched past saving.
hương đảng mạc như xỉ
In the village, nothing outranks age — the hamlet's law: gray hair above every title.
hạ hồi phân giải
that will be explained in more detail later
hại nhơn nhơn hại
Harm others and harm answers — retribution pays in this life, not the next.
hải đường là ngọn đông lân
The crabapple bends its crown toward the eastern neighbor — a beauty inclining toward an admirer; from Truyện Kiều.
hất hàm
to jerk the chin so as to signal an occurrence or command, otherwise to display arrogance
hầm bà lằng xán cấu
The whole jumbled lot — everything shoveled in together, hodgepodge upon hodgepodge.
hậu dược thành công
The last doctor gets the credit — whoever's medicine coincides with the cure is called the genius.
hậu sanh khả úy
The young are to be feared — respect the ones coming up; Confucius said it of a child.
hậu sinh khả uý
the later generations are very capable; never underestimate someone younger than you
hắc giả tiên hành
a rule which dictates that black side goes first
hẹn gặp bạn ngày mai nhé
See you tomorrow.
hẹn gặp lại
see you later; see you
hẹn gặp lại sớm nhé
See you soon.
hết chay thầy đi đất
The fast over, the monk walks on bare ground — reverence lasts exactly as long as the ritual pays.
hết gạo chạy rông
Rice gone, running loose — the empty larder sends everyone into the streets.
hết nước chấm
Beyond words; nothing left to add — so complete (good or absurd) that even the dipping sauce ran out.
hết nạc vạc xương
Lean meat gone, scrape the bones — extraction continuing past the last worthwhile layer.
hết thuốc chữa
there's no cure
hết xôi rồi việc
The sticky rice finished, the business is finished — the courtesy ends when the feeding does.
hệ thống báo động chống trộm
security alarm; burglar alarm
hệ thống liên lạc nội bộ
intercom system
hệ thống sưởi trung tâm
central heating system
họ nhà tôm lộn cứt lên đầu
The shrimp clan wears its dirt above its head — a house whose disorder sits in plain view; the innards worn as a crown.
họa hổ bất thành
The tiger painting that wouldn't come out — a scheme that died on the easel.
họa hổ họa bì nan họa cốt, tri nhơn tri diện bất tri tâm
Skin and stripes paint easily, bones don't; faces are known easily, hearts not — the inside of tiger and man alike resists the brush.
họa hổ loại cẩu
Painted a tiger, produced a dog — ambition's masterpiece, delivered as farce.
họa khởi ư tiêu tường
Calamity rises inside the screen-wall — the house's ruin is plotted in its own inner rooms.
họa lai thần ám
When calamity arrives, the wits go dark — in the thick of trouble, the mind can't find its own door; blessing's opposite, where luck sharpens thought.
họa phù thân đái
Painting the talisman you wear yourself — issuing one's own credentials.
họa phước vô môn, di nhơn tự triệu
Fortune and misfortune have no gate — each is invited by its own tenant.
học như gà đá vách
Studying like a chicken sparring a wall — effort loud, progress none.
học sư bất như học hữu
Learning from the master is less than learning from friends — peers teach what lecterns can't.
học thày chẳng tầy học bạn
Learning from the master is not learning from friends — the peer teaches what the lectern can't.
học trò xứ Quảng ra thi Thấy cô gái Huế bỏ đi không đành
The Quảng student came for the examinations, saw a Huế girl, and could not make himself leave — scholarship's oldest hazard.
học tài thi phận
Study makes the talent, the exam makes the fate — learning proposes, the examination hall disposes.
hỏa thượng thiêm du
Oil onto the fire — goading a blaze that needed calming.
hỏi sư mượn lược
Borrowing a comb from a monk — supply requested at the one address certain to lack it.
hỏng nồi vơ rế
Pot ruined, grab the trivet-ring — salvage snatched from the wreck.
hồ giả hổ oai
The fox borrowing the tiger's terror — swagger rented from the power standing behind.
hồn ai nấy giữ
Each soul keeps its own — every man for himself; mind your own fate.
Hồng Hài Nhi
Hồng Hài Nhi — 'Red Boy' from Journey to the West, repurposed for a young man dating a much older woman.
hồng nhan bạc phận
A rosy face, a thin fate — beauty shadowed by misfortune; the lovely are born to suffer.
hồng nhan hoạ thuỷ
charming beauty who makes men fall and leads to disasters (such as a loss of wealth or reputation, or a toppled nation); dangerous woman; femme fatale
hồng-nhan đa truân
The rosy-cheeked meet many trials — beauty's toll, paid in troubles.
hổ phụ sinh hổ tử
father tigers produce child tigers
hộ hôn điền thổ, vạn cổ chi thù
Marriages, households and land — the feuds of ten thousand years; where lawsuits never die.
hội Thầy, giã La, bơi Đăm, rước Giá
Thầy's festival, La's rice-pounding, Đăm's regatta, Giá's procession — the spring calendar's four great outings.
hộp đựng kính áp tròng
contact lens case
hỡi cô tát nước bên đàng Sao cô tát ánh trăng vàng đổ đi
O girl bailing water by the road — why bail the golden moonlight and pour it away — courtship's most famous opening line.
hợp đồng âm dương
A yin-yang contract — the under-the-table twin of the official deal.
hữu cầu tất ứng
Ask and it answers — the responsive shrine; sincerity always finds its ear.
hữu danh nhàn phú quí, vô sự tiểu thần tiên
Famous and rich at leisure, or unbothered as a minor immortal — two blessings of equal rank.
hữu duyên thiên lý ngộ
With affinity, a thousand miles still meet — the fated find each other across any distance.
hữu lao vô công
The toil real, the credit missing — sweat entered in no ledger.