初夜
chū yè
Pinyin
Definition
初夜
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- early evening
- wedding night
- (fig.) first sexual encounter
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
俾夜作昼
- 1 lit. to make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil
- 2 work especially hard
俾昼作夜
- 1 to make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour
初出茅庐
- 1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
- 2 young and inexperienced
- 3 novice
- 4 greenhorn
初生之犊不畏虎
- 1 lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom)
- 2 fig. the fearlessness of youth
初生牛犊不怕虎
- 1 lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom)
- 2 fig. the young are fearless