车到山前必有路 / 車到山前必有路

chē​dào​shān​qián​bì​yǒu​lù

things will work out

literally 'when the carriage reaches the mountain there will be a path'; used to mean that things will eventually sort themselves out or that a solution will appear when needed

车 (literal) → 车/車 · chē · vehicle 到 (literal) → 到 · dào · to arrive 山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 前 (literal) → 前 · qián · front 必 (literal) → 必 · bì · certainly 有 (literal) → 有 · yǒu · there is 路 (literal) → 路 · lù · road

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:57 PM