儿孙自有儿孙福
ér sūn zì yǒu ér sūn fú
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 兒孫自有兒孫福
Children and grandchildren have their own share of luck and will make their own way, so parents need not worry about everything for them. Said to, or by, older people who fret over grown-up children.
Con cháu tự có phúc phần của con cháu: cha mẹ không cần lo toan, sắp đặt mọi thứ cho chúng. Thường là lời khuyên dành cho, hoặc lời tự nhủ của, người lớn tuổi hay lo cho con cái đã trưởng thành.
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 儿/兒 = nhi · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “nhi tôn tự hữu nhi tôn phước” (nhi-ton-tu-huu-nhi-ton-phuoc). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “儿孙自有儿孙福” mean?
Children and grandchildren have their own share of luck and will make their own way, so parents need not worry about everything for them. Said to, or by, older people who fret over grown-up children. Literally: children and grandchildren have their own blessings
Is “儿孙自有儿孙福” formal or informal?
儿孙自有儿孙福 is generally neutral.