女婿
nu:3 xu
Pinyin
Definition
女婿
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- daughter's husband
- son-in-law
Character Decomposition
Idioms (17)
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
女大不中留
- 1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
- 1 lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
- 2 fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
女子无才便是德
- 1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
女扮男装
- 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
Sample Sentences
我有个护士朋友说是家长想要女婿了,所以想认识认识新朋友。但是她可挑剔了,她开出来的征友条件,让人看了都傻眼。
I have a nurse friend who says that her parents want a son-in-law, so she wants to meet new friends. But she’s very picky, and her list of boyfriend criteria is really shocking.
那个时候周 丽跟我说,因为她爸病重而且很想见到自己未来的女婿,所以想让我假装她的男朋友去老家见她爸。
Zhou Li said to me then, that because her dad is seriously ill and really wants to see his future son-in-law, so she asked me to pretend to be her boyfriend to go back home to see her dad.
真的?李白是倒插门女婿?
Really? Li Bai was a son-in-law living in his wife's home?
好女婿,你丈母娘老夸你呢!
You're a good son-in-law. Your mother-in-law is always speaking highly of you!
哎,我女儿女婿离得远,一年能回来一趟就不错了。
Agh, my daughter and son-in-law are really far away. If they can get here once a year, that's pretty good.