千金散尽还复来

千金散盡還復來
qiānjīnsànjìnhuánfùlái
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 a thousand pieces of gold, once scattered, will come back again
  2. 2 money spent freely will return; don't grudge what you give

Examples

Tā qǐngkè cóng bù xiǎoqì, zǒng shuō qiān jīn sàn jìn huán fù lái.
He's never stingy when treating people — always says 'gold spent comes back.'
Yòng Lǐ Bái nà jù qiān jīn sàn jìn huán fù lái lái kāidǎo tā, bié tài xīnténg qián.
Use Li Bai's line 'gold spent returns' to cheer him up — don't be so pained about the money.

Tips

history
From 李白 Li Bai 《》 — one of the most famous drinking poems in Chinese literature: 天生有用千金 — 'heaven must have made my talent for some use; a thousand gold coins scattered will come back.' Bravado of the confident spender.
usage
here is huán (to return), not hái. is sàn (to scatter/spend), not sǎn. Usually quoted with the preceding 天生有用 — the lines form a single confident declaration.

Stroke Order

qiān
jīn
sàn
jǐn
hái
lái