百年好合

bǎinián-hǎohé
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 may you be happily married for a hundred years
  2. 2 a lifelong happy marriage

Examples

HSK 7-9
Zhù nǐmen bǎinián-hǎohé, báitóu-xiélǎo!
May you be happily married for a hundred years and grow old together!
HSK 7-9
Hūnlǐ shàng, bīnkèmen fēnfēn jǔbēi, zhù xīnrén bǎinián-hǎohé.
At the wedding, one guest after another raised a glass and wished the newlyweds a lifelong happy marriage.

Tips

culture
Written on red banners and wedding cards, often beside 白头偕老 or 永结同心 "forever of one heart". Lilies, 百合, are a wedding flower partly because the name shares two characters with this blessing.

Stroke Order

百 bǎi
年 nián
好 hǎo
合 hé