好事多磨 — Chinese idiom
好事多磨
hǎo shì duō mó
Meaning
- the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks
Character by character
- 好hǎogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci
- 多duōmuch, many, multi-; more than, over
- 磨mómillstone; to grind, to polish, to rub, to wear ou
Idioms sharing a character
- 不怀好意 bù huái hǎo yì
- 不知好歹 bù zhī hǎo dǎi
- 不识好歹 bù shí hǎo dǎi
- 做好做歹 zuò hǎo zuò dǎi
- 公诸同好 gōng zhū tóng hào
- 各有所好 gè yǒu suǒ hào
- 好吃懒做 hào chī lǎn zuò
- 好梦难成 hǎo mèng nán chéng
- 好奇尚异 hào qí shàng yì
- 好整以暇 hào zhěng yǐ xiá
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