gừng càng già càng cay
wisdom with age
proverb
wisdom with age
Learn more
After looking up a meaning, choose a textbook or practice activity to keep learning Vietnamese.
Learn letters and pronunciation from the beginning
Open the 10days courseA ten-day introductory course. Open the cover to start learning or continue where you left off.
Learn conversation through a story
Read about “Tết, the Third Time”A textbook that teaches conversation through a family story. It is being prepared; see its content and release status.
Practise words and sounds in short activities
Choose from the practice listChoose an activity for vocabulary, tones, listening and other skills.
1 senses
Meaning
1 senses
▸
Meaning
1 senses
Sense 1
proverb
wisdom with age
A proverb suggesting that as people get older, they become wiser and more experienced in life.
vi Ông tôi luôn đưa ra những lời khuyên đúng đắn vì gừng càng già càng cay.
en My grandfather always gives wise advice because wisdom comes with age.
Parts
薑強伽強咳
▸
Parts
薑強伽強咳
Chinese characters
Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
薑強伽強咳
Candidates by syllable
gừng
薑（𦹱）
càng
強
già
伽（𦓅）
càng
強
cay
咳（𡀲 / 𠹽 / 𨐮 / 𨢟）
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
gừng / gừng gió / hơi cay / chua cay …
▸
Similar
gừng / gừng gió / hơi cay / chua cay …