倒插门 (倒插門)
dào chā mén
Pinyin

Definition

倒插门 (倒插門)
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dào chā mén
  1. to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

倒
dǎo
  1. 1 to fall
  2. 2 to collapse
  3. 3 to lie horizontally
  4. 4 to overthrow
  5. 5 to fail
  6. 6 to go bankrupt
  7. 7 to change (trains or buses)
  8. 8 to move around
  9. 9 to resell at a profit
倒霉
dǎo méi
  1. 1 to have bad luck
  2. 2 to be out of luck
插
chā
  1. 1 to insert
  2. 2 stick in
  3. 3 pierce
  4. 4 to take part in
  5. 5 to interfere
  6. 6 to interpose
一边倒
yī biān dǎo
  1. 1 to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side
  2. 2 to support unconditionally
倒下
dǎo xià
  1. 1 to collapse
  2. 2 to topple over

Idioms (20)

倒悬之危
dào xuán zhī wēi
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之急
dào xuán zhī jí
  1. 1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
倒打一耙
dào dǎ yī pá
  1. 1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
  2. 2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
倒行逆施
dào xíng nì shī
  1. 1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
  2. 2 to try to turn back history
  3. 3 a perverse way of doing things

Sample Sentences

真的？李白是倒插门女婿？
zhēnde ？Lǐ Bái shì dàochāmén nǚxu ？
Really? Li Bai was a son-in-law living in his wife's home?
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嗯，一个文化节目上说的。不过盛唐时期社会风气很开明，李白也不是出生在中原地区，可能他觉得倒插门不算什么丢脸的事情。何况还有利于实现他的政治理想。
ng4 ，yī gè wénhuà jiémù shàng shuō de 。bùguò shèngtáng shíqī shèhuìfēngqì hěn kāimíng ，Lǐ Bái yě bù shì chūshēng zài Zhōngyuán dìqū ，kěnéng tā juéde dàochāmén bùsuàn shénme diū liǎn de shìqing 。hékuàng hái yǒulìyú shíxiàn tā de zhèngzhì lǐxiǎng 。
Yeah, a culture show said so. However, the social customs during the golden age of the Tang Dynasty were very open. Li Bai wasn't born in the central area of China, so perhaps he thought that living in his wife's home wasn't a loss of face. Moreover, it was beneficial in helping him achieve his political ambitions.
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