Tiếng Việt · Proverb Attested

nhất vợ nhì giời

🎙 Say it

In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

First the wife, then heaven — the henpecked cosmology, ranked honestly.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Vợ quan trọng hơn trời

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: first the wife, second the sky

Examples

Ông ấy nhất vợ nhì giời mà.With him it's wife first, heaven second.

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 “nhất vợ nhì giời” mean?

First the wife, then heaven — the henpecked cosmology, ranked honestly. Literally: first the wife, second the sky

Is “nhất vợ nhì giời” 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