Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「樂往哀來」—details below.
In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「樂往哀來」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
Joy goes away, sorrow comes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lè wǎng āi lái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lok6/ngok6 wong5 oi1 loi4
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