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有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭 (jau5 ji3 zoi1 faa1 faa1 bat1 faat3 mou4 sam1 caap3 lau5 lau5 sing4 jam3) — what one intentionally does ends fruitless; but what one unintentionally does ends up producing suprising results in Cantonese

jauˏ₅有ji˗₃意zoiˉ¹栽faaˉ¹花faaˉ¹花batˉ¹不faat˗₃發，mouˎ₄無samˉ¹心caap˗₃插lauˏ₅柳lauˏ₅柳singˎ₄成jam˗₃蔭
简 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成荫
Mandarin Pinyin: you3 yi4 zai1 hua1 hua1 bu4 fa1 wu2 xin1 cha1 liu3 liu3 cheng2 yin4

Meaning of 有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭

nounwhat one intentionally does ends fruitless; but what one unintentionally does ends up producing suprising results
nounthings do not always turn out as one would expect

Characters in 有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成蔭

有jau5
there is; exist; be present
意ji3
expect; anticipate; foresee
栽zoi1
insert; stick in; force sth on
花faa1
fireworks
不bat1
not; no; un-
發faat3
classifier for ammunition
無mou4
no matter what (or how); not yet
心sam1
Kangxi radical 61
插caap3
interpose; intersperse; cut in
柳lau5
fillet
成sing4
one tenth; 10 per cent
蔭jam1
shade of a tree

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