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養兒一百歲，長憂九十九 (joeng5 ji4 jat1 baak3 seoi3 coeng4 jau1 gau2 sap6 gau2) — 生兒一百歲,長憂九十九 in Cantonese

joengˏ₅養jiˎ₄兒jatˉ¹一baak˗₃百seoi˗₃歲，coengˎ₄長jauˉ¹憂gauˊ²九sapˍ₆十gauˊ²九
简 养儿一百岁，长忧九十九
Mandarin Pinyin: yang3 er5 yi1 bai3 sui4 chang2 you1 jiu3 shi2 jiu3

Meaning of 養兒一百歲，長憂九十九

noun生兒一百歲,長憂九十九
nounparents worry about their children forever:
nounto raise a child till he reaches age one hundred, a parent would worry about him for ninety-nine years.

Characters in 養兒一百歲，長憂九十九

養joeng5
rest; convalesce; recuperate
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)
一jat1
one; a; an; the
百baak3
hundred
歲seoi3
year; age (of a person)
長coeng4
(of distance and time) long | [antonym] 短
憂jau1
worry about; look worried/troubled
九gau2
nine
十sap6
KangXi radical 24

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