Khó giữa chợ chẳng ai hỏi han, giàu sơn lâm có người tìm đến

🎙 Say it

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Meaning · English

Wealth attracts friends, but poverty isolates

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Giàu có thu hút bạn bè, nhưng nghèo đói làm cho người ta bị cô lập

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: Hard in the market no one asks, rich in the mountains have people coming

Examples

Khi tôi thất nghiệp, tôi cảm thấy như khó giữa chợ chẳng ai hỏi hanWhen I was unemployed, I felt like I was hard in the market and no one asked about me

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

Sources & notes

Headword listed in the vdict.com proverb dictionary index (discovery source; headword only — no source content copied). Entered as candidate 2026-08-05; definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-08-06; pending editor spot-check.

Common questions

What does “Khó giữa chợ chẳng ai hỏi han, giàu sơn lâm có người tìm đến” mean?

Wealth attracts friends, but poverty isolates Literally: Hard in the market no one asks, rich in the mountains have people coming

Is “Khó giữa chợ chẳng ai hỏi han, giàu sơn lâm có người tìm đến” formal or informal?

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

👁 Views 0 today 0 past 7 days 0 this month 0 all time