mẹ nuôi con bằng giời bằng bể, con nuôi mẹ con kể từng ngày
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A mother feeds her child by the sky and sea; the child feeds its mother counting the days — devotion downstream, arithmetic upstream.
Examples
Editorial example (VI sweep batch 040, illustrative)
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 is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.
Common questions
What does “mẹ nuôi con bằng giời bằng bể, con nuôi mẹ con kể từng ngày” mean?
A mother feeds her child by the sky and sea; the child feeds its mother counting the days — devotion downstream, arithmetic upstream. Literally: mother rears by heaven and ocean; child rears by counted days
Is “mẹ nuôi con bằng giời bằng bể, con nuôi mẹ con kể từng ngày” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.