安居乐业

ān jū lè yè

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Traditional: 安居樂業

Meaning · English

To live a settled, peaceful life and be content in one's work. Used mostly about ordinary people or a whole community enjoying stability, often when talking about society and government.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Sống yên ổn và vui vẻ làm ăn. Thường dùng để nói về đời sống ổn định của người dân hay của cả một cộng đồng, nhất là khi bàn chuyện xã hội.

Literally: dwell in peace, enjoy one's work

Register: formal

Examples

老百姓只想安居乐业。Lǎobǎixìng zhǐ xiǎng ān jū lè yè.Ordinary people just want to live and work in peace.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “an cư lạc nghiệp” = 安居樂業 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “an cư lạc nghiệp” (an-cu-lac-nghiep). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Common questions

What does “安居乐业” mean?

To live a settled, peaceful life and be content in one's work. Used mostly about ordinary people or a whole community enjoying stability, often when talking about society and government. Literally: dwell in peace, enjoy one's work

Is “安居乐业” formal or informal?

安居乐业 is generally formal.

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