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上有老下有小

shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo

Definition

  1. (lit.) above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. (fig.) to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. sandwich generation

Character Decomposition

上
=
？
+
一
有
=
？
+
月
老
=
耂
+
匕
下
=
一
+
卜
有
=
亅
+
八

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