送旧迎新
sòng jiù yíng xīn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 送舊迎新
To say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one; more broadly, to see off whoever or whatever is leaving and receive what is arriving. Heard mostly around New Year.
Tiễn cái cũ, đón cái mới; nhất là tiễn năm cũ, đón năm mới. Thường nghe vào dịp cuối năm, Tết đến; cũng dùng khi tiễn người cũ đi, đón người mới đến.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 旧/舊 = cựu, 迎 = nghinh · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tống cựu nghinh tân” (tong-cuu-nghinh-tan). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “送旧迎新” mean?
To say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one; more broadly, to see off whoever or whatever is leaving and receive what is arriving. Heard mostly around New Year. Literally: send off the old, welcome in the new
Is “送旧迎新” formal or informal?
送旧迎新 is generally neutral.