娘娘腔
niáng niang qiāng
Pinyin

Definition

娘娘腔
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niáng niang qiāng
  1. sissy
  2. effeminate

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

姑娘
gū niang
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 young woman
  3. 3 young lady
  4. 4 daughter
  5. 5 paternal aunt (old)
  6. 6 classifier: 个 gè
娘
niáng
  1. 1 mother
  2. 2 young lady
  3. 3 (coll.) effeminate
娘家
niáng jia
  1. 1 married woman's parents' home
新娘
xīn niáng
  1. 1 bride
老娘
lǎo niáng
  1. 1 my old mother
  2. 2 I, this old woman
  3. 3 my old lady (colloquial)
  4. 4 maternal grandmother
  5. 5 midwife

Idioms (3)

天要落雨，娘要嫁人
tiān yào luò yǔ , niáng yào jià rén
  1. 1 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the natural order of things
  3. 3 something you can't go against
有奶便是娘
yǒu nǎi biàn shì niáng
  1. 1 lit. whoever provides milk is your mother (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to follow whoever is feeding you
  3. 3 to put one's loyalties where one's interests lie
洋腔洋调
yáng qiāng yáng diào
  1. 1 to speak with a foreign accent or using words from a foreign language (usually derogatory) (idiom)

Sample Sentences

难怪，我听到有些名字以为会是女孩子，结果发现是男生，还很惊讶。不过这种情况应该不算多吧，总觉得男孩子会比较抗拒用像女生的名字，太娘娘腔。
nánguài ，wǒ tīngdào yǒuxiē míngzi yǐwéi huì shì nǚháizi ，jiéguǒ fāxiàn shì nánshēng ，huán hěn jīngyà 。bùguò zhèzhǒng qíngkuàng yīnggāi bù suàn duō ba ，zǒng juéde nánháizi huì bǐjiào kàngjù yòng xiàng nǚshēng de míngzi ，tài niángniángqiāng 。
No wonder I've been really surprised to hear some names and think they were girls, only to discover that they were boys! But this is probably not really common, huh? I've always felt that boys would resist using girls names-- it's too sissy.
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男孩子跳太娘娘腔了。
nánháizi tiào tài niángniángqiāng le 。
It's too girly for boys to do ballet.
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他很娘娘腔，说话像一个女人。
tā hěn niángniángqiāng ，shuōhuà xiàng yī ge nǚrén 。
He's really girly. He talks like a woman.
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娘娘腔
niángniángqiāng
girly, womanish
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因为男人这样说话太娘娘腔了。女孩子撒娇的时候才会这么说。
yīnwèi nánrén zhèyàngde shuōhuà tài niángniángqiāng le 。nǚháizi sājiāo de shíhou cái huì zhème shuō 。
It just sounds too girly for a guy to say those things. Only girls talk like that, when they’re whining.
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