劳燕分飞
Traditional form:
勞燕分飛
Pinyin (reading):
láoyànfēnfēi
Definitions:
- the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom)
- (usually of a couple) to part from each other
Characters:
- 劳 - to labor, to toil; to do manual work
- 燕 - lovebird, swallow
- 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
- 飞 - to fly, to dart; high
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