女扮男装 (女扮男裝)
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
Pinyin

Definition

女扮男装 (女扮男裝)
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nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
  1. (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

女
nǚ
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
女孩
nǚ hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
男
nán
  1. 1 male
  2. 2 Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
男人
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (19)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
乔装打扮
qiáo zhuāng dǎ bàn
  1. 1 to dress up in disguise (idiom); to pretend for the purpose of deceit
女大不中留
nǚ dà bù zhōng liú
  1. 1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
nǚ 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
nǚ zǐ wú cái biàn shì dé
  1. 1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)

Sample Sentences

我从小习武，骑马射箭样样精通，而且还看过很多兵书。我想女扮男装......
wǒ cóngxiǎo xíwǔ ，qímǎ shèjiàn yàngyàng jīngtōng ，érqiě hái kàn guo hěn duō bīngshū 。wǒ xiǎng nǚbànnánzhuāng ......
Ever since I was young, I've practiced martial arts, horseback riding and archery, and I'm proficient in them all. Moreover, I've also read many books on warfare. I would like to disguise myself as a man.
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