重男轻女
zhòng nán qīng nu:3
Pinyin

Definition

重男轻女
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zhòng nán qīng nu:3
  1. to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

女
nu:3
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
女人
nu:3 rén
  1. 1 woman
女孩
nu:3 hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
女生
nu:3 shēng
  1. 1 schoolgirl
  2. 2 female student
  3. 3 girl
男
nán
  1. 1 male
  2. 2 Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
男人
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
美女
měi nu:3
  1. 1 beautiful woman
重
chóng
  1. 1 to repeat
  2. 2 repetition
  3. 3 again
  4. 4 re-
  5. 5 classifier: layer
重要
zhòng yào
  1. 1 important
  2. 2 significant
  3. 3 major
仙女
xiān nu:3
  1. 1 fairy
保重
bǎo zhòng
  1. 1 to take care of oneself
儿女
ér nu:3
  1. 1 children
  2. 2 sons and daughters
加重
jiā zhòng
  1. 1 to make heavier
  2. 2 to emphasize
  3. 3 (of an illness etc) to become more serious
  4. 4 to aggravate (a bad situation)
  5. 5 to increase (a burden, punishment etc)
厚重
hòu zhòng
  1. 1 thick
  2. 2 heavy
  3. 3 thickset (body)
  4. 4 massive
  5. 5 generous
  6. 6 extravagant
  7. 7 profound
  8. 8 dignified
严重
yán zhòng
  1. 1 grave
  2. 2 serious
  3. 3 severe
  4. 4 critical
外甥女
wài sheng nu:3
  1. 1 sister's daughter
  2. 2 wife's sibling's daughter
女仆
nu:3 pú
  1. 1 female servant
  2. 2 drudge
女儿
nu:3 ér
  1. 1 daughter
女友
nu:3 yǒu
  1. 1 girlfriend
女士
nu:3 shì
  1. 1 lady
  2. 2 madam
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi]
  4. 4 Miss
  5. 5 Ms

Idioms (20)

一言为重
yī yán wéi zhòng
  1. 1 each word carries weight
  2. 2 a promise must be kept (idiom)
三个女人一台戏
sān ge nu:3 rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
不知轻重
bù zhī qīng zhòng
  1. 1 lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things
  2. 2 naive
  3. 3 doesn't know who's who
  4. 4 no sense of priorities
功高望重
gōng gāo wàng zhòng
  1. 1 high merit and worthy prospects (idiom)
千里送鹅毛，礼轻人意重
qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng rén yì zhòng
  1. 1 goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning (idiom); It's not the present the counts, it's the thought behind it.
千里送鹅毛，礼轻情意重
qiān lǐ sòng é máo , lǐ qīng qíng yì zhòng
  1. 1 goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.
卷土重来
juǎn tǔ chóng lái
  1. 1 lit. to return in a swirl of dust (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to regroup and come back even stronger
  3. 3 to make a comeback
名重识暗
míng zhòng shí àn
  1. 1 of great reputation but shallow in knowledge (idiom)
问鼎轻重
wèn dǐng qīng zhòng
  1. 1 lit. to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy (idiom); a laughable attempt to seize power
女大不中留
nu:3 dà bù zhōng liú
  1. 1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
nu:3 dà shí bā biàn
  1. 1 lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
女子无才便是德
nu:3 zǐ wú cái biàn shì dé
  1. 1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
女扮男装
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
女生外向
nu:3 shēng wài xiàng
  1. 1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
  2. 2 a woman's heart is with her husband
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
如释重负
rú shì zhòng fù
  1. 1 as if relieved from a burden (idiom)
  2. 2 to have a weight off one's mind
少女露笑脸，婚事半成全
shào nu:3 lù xiào liǎn , hūn shì bàn chéng quán
  1. 1 When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
山峦重叠
shān luán chóng dié
  1. 1 overlapping ranges of high mountains (idiom)
忍辱负重
rěn rǔ fù zhòng
  1. 1 to endure humiliation as part of an important mission (idiom); to suffer in silence
慎重其事
shèn zhòng qí shì
  1. 1 to treat a matter with due consideration (idiom)

Sample Sentences

为什么？重男轻女？
wèishénme ？zhòngnánqīngnǚ ？
Why? Favoring boys over girls?
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从性别上看，弃婴中倒是男孩子占多数，打破了以前社会存在的重男轻女、传宗接代的遗弃因素。
cóng xìngbié shàng kàn ，qìyīng zhōng dàoshì nánháizi zhàn duōshù ，dǎpò le yǐqián shèhuì cúnzài de zhòngnánqīngnǚ 、chuánzōngjiēdài de yíqì yīnsù 。
From the perspective of gender, among abandoned babies, there are more boys, breaking society's former preference for boys over girls, the traditional reason for abandoning children.
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哎！我老公家是做生意的，重男轻女思想很严重。天天给我施压，催我再生个儿子。没办法，为了家庭和睦，只能再遭一次罪了。
ài ！wǒ lǎogōng jiā shì zuò shēngyi de ，zhòngnánqīngnǚ sīxiǎng hěn yánzhòng 。tiāntiān gěi wǒ shīyā ，cuī wǒ zài shēng ge érzi 。méi bànfǎ ，wèile jiātíng hémù ，zhǐnéng zài zāo yīcì zuì le 。
Ah! My husband's family is in business; they really heavily value boys over girls. They're pressuring and urging me every day to have a boy. I have no choice. All I can do is bear this burden for the sake of our family's harmony.
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