lên non mới biết non cao, nuôi con mới biết công lao mẹ hiền
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Meaning · English
Climb the mountain to know its height; raise a child to know a gentle mother's labor — scale learned only firsthand.
Literally: ascend the peak to know the peak is high; raise a child to know mother's toil
Sources & notes
Discovered via Vietnamese Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.
Common questions
What does “lên non mới biết non cao, nuôi con mới biết công lao mẹ hiền” mean?
Climb the mountain to know its height; raise a child to know a gentle mother's labor — scale learned only firsthand. Literally: ascend the peak to know the peak is high; raise a child to know mother's toil
Is “lên non mới biết non cao, nuôi con mới biết công lao mẹ hiền” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.