idiom
上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom); fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children; sandwich generation
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Related words
- 绕膝rào xī(children) run around parent's knees
- 孔融让梨Kǒng Róng ràng líKong Rong giving up pears, classic moral story about Kong Rong 孔融[Kong3 Rong2] picking up smaller pears while leaving the bigger ones to his older brothers, still used nowadays to educate the young on courtesy and modesty
- 后进hòu jìnless advanced
- 上天
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上有老下有小 is not on the HSK 2.0 lists or the new exam syllabus.
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上有老下有小 (shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo) means "lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom); fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children; sandwich generation" in Chinese.
上有老下有小 is pronounced "shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo" in Mandarin Chinese. It is made up of 6 syllables.
上有老下有小 is not part of the HSK vocabulary lists. It may be a specialized or advanced word.
上有老下有小 is made up of the characters 上, 有, 老, 下, 有, 小. Each character has its own meaning and can appear in other words.
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