Tiếng Việt · Proverb Candidate

gái có con như bồ-hòn có rễ, gái không con như bè nghể trôi sông

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Meaning · English

A woman with children is rooted, while one without is ungrounded

Literally: girl has child like sophora has root, girl no child like raft drifts river

Examples

Gái có con như bồ-hòn có rễ, gái không con như bè nghể trôi sông, nên phụ nữ nên sinh conA woman with children is like a sophora tree with roots, while one without children is like a drifting raft, so women should have children

AI-drafted example auto-approved by rule (illustrative, not a corpus attestation)

Sources & notes

Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-01; pending editor spot-check.

Common questions

What does “gái có con như bồ-hòn có rễ, gái không con như bè nghể trôi sông” mean?

A woman with children is rooted, while one without is ungrounded Literally: girl has child like sophora has root, girl no child like raft drifts river

Is “gái có con như bồ-hòn có rễ, gái không con như bè nghể trôi sông” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.