百年好合
bǎi nián hǎo hé
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A wish that the couple will stay happily together for a hundred years. Said to the bride and groom at weddings and written on cards and gifts.
Trăm năm hoà hợp tốt đẹp: lời chúc cô dâu chú rể sống hạnh phúc bên nhau trọn đời. Thường nói trong lễ cưới và ghi trên thiệp, quà mừng.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (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): Hán-Việt reading 年 = niên, 好 = hảo; etymology of “bách niên hảo hợp” = 百年好合 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “bách niên hảo hợp” (bach-nien-hao-hop). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “百年好合” mean?
A wish that the couple will stay happily together for a hundred years. Said to the bride and groom at weddings and written on cards and gifts. Literally: a hundred years in happy union
Is “百年好合” formal or informal?
百年好合 is generally neutral.