天生我材必有用

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw	I; me	material	certainly; must; will certainly; must; will; necessarily	to have; there is; there are to have; there is; there are; to exist; to be	to use
simp. and trad. (天生我材必有用)		天	生	我	材	必	有	用
alt. forms		天生我才必有用

From Li Bai's poem 《將進酒》:

天生我材必有用，千金散盡還復來。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
天生我材必有用，千金散尽还复来。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

From: Translated by Yang Xianyi

Tiān shēng wǒ cái bì yǒu yòng, qiānjīn sàn jìn huán fùlái. [Pinyin]

Heaven has made us talents; we're not made in vain.
A thousand gold coins spent, more will turn up again.

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiān shēng wǒ cái bì yǒu yòng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄕㄥㄨㄛˇ ㄘㄞˊ ㄅㄧˋ ㄧㄡˇ ㄩㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ sang¹ ngo⁵ coi⁴ bit¹ jau⁵ jung⁶
Min Nan (POJ): thian seng ngó͘ châi pit iú iōng

天生我材必有用

Everybody has something that they were born to be good at; if you search hard enough, you will find your niche in life; everyone is put on this Earth to achieve something.

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