报得三春晖

報得三春暉
bàodésānchūnhuī
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 repay the warmth of three-month spring sunshine
  2. 2 children can never fully repay a mother's love
  3. 3 closing line of Meng Jiao's 'Song of the Wandering Son'

Examples

Shéi yán cùn cǎo xīn, bào dé sān chūn huī — mǔ'ài shì yǒngyuǎn bàodá bu wán de.
Who says a blade of grass could repay the spring sun? A mother's love can never be fully repaid.
Měi dào Mǔqīnjié, wǒ dōu xiǎngqǐ 'bào dé sān chūn huī' zhè jù huà.
Every Mother's Day I think of the line 'repay the warmth of spring sunshine.'

Stroke Order

bào
sān
chūn
huī