Chinese · Idiom Attested

多多益善

duō duō yì shàn

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

More is always welcome: 'the more, the better'. Said of anything one cannot have too much of, such as help, money, friends or volunteers.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Càng nhiều càng tốt. Dùng cho những thứ có bao nhiêu cũng muốn thêm, như sự giúp đỡ, tiền bạc, bạn bè hay người tham gia.

Literally: more and more, all the better

Examples

来帮忙的人当然是多多益善。Lái bāngmáng de rén dāngrán shì duō duō yì shàn.As for people coming to help, the more the better, of course.

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 ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “đa đa ích thiện” (da-da-ich-thien). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Hán-Việt cognate đa đa ích thiện The more, the better — abundance as its own argument; said of what improves by quantity. Tiếng Việt

Common questions

What does “多多益善” mean?

More is always welcome: 'the more, the better'. Said of anything one cannot have too much of, such as help, money, friends or volunteers. Literally: more and more, all the better

Is “多多益善” formal or informal?

多多益善 is generally neutral.

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