劳燕分飞 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 勞燕分飛 láoyànfēnfēi ㄌㄠˊ ㄧㄢˋ ㄈㄣ ㄈㄟ 男 女 the shrike and the swallow fly in different directions (idiom) to part from each other usually of a couple Character by character 劳(láo)toil 燕(yàn)swallow 分(fēn)divide 飞(fēi)fly Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0