情窦初开 (情竇初開)
qíng dòu chū kāi
Pinyin

Definition

情窦初开 (情竇初開)
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qíng dòu chū kāi
  1. first awakening of love (usually of a girl) (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

事情
shì qing
  1. 1 affair
  2. 2 matter
  3. 3 thing
  4. 4 business
  5. 5 classifier: 件 jiàn
  6. 6 classifier: 桩 zhuāng
初
chū
  1. 1 at first
  2. 2 (at the) beginning
  3. 3 first
  4. 4 junior
  5. 5 basic
初一
chū yī
  1. 1 first day of lunar month
  2. 2 New Year's Day
  3. 3 first year in junior middle school
心情
xīn qíng
  1. 1 mood
  2. 2 frame of mind
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
情
qíng
  1. 1 feeling
  2. 2 emotion
  3. 3 passion
  4. 4 situation

Idioms (20)

一掬同情之泪
yī jū tóng qíng zhī lèi
  1. 1 to shed tears of sympathy (idiom)
一见钟情
yī jiàn zhōng qíng
  1. 1 love at first sight (idiom)
人之常情
rén zhī cháng qíng
  1. 1 human nature (idiom)
  2. 2 a behavior that is only natural
入情入理
rù qíng rù lǐ
  1. 1 sensible and reasonable (idiom)
初出茅庐
chū chū máo lú
  1. 1 venturing from one's thatched hut for the first time (idiom)
  2. 2 young and inexperienced
  3. 3 novice
  4. 4 greenhorn

Sample Sentences

可以说，遇见她，给我枯燥的大三生活增添了许多活力和憧憬。寝室的室友知道后也一直说我撞桃花，情窦初开了。转眼间，到了第四个周末。
kěyǐ shuō ，yùjiàn tā ，gěi wǒ kūzào de dàsān shēnghuó zēngtiān le xǔduō huólì hé chōngjǐng 。qǐnshì de shìyǒu zhīdào hòu yě yīzhí shuō wǒ zhuàng táohuā ，qíngdòuchūkāi le 。zhuǎnyǎnjiān ，dào le dì sì ge zhōumò 。
You could say, meeting her put a little life into my dull, third-year student existence and gave me something to look forward to. After my rommates found out, they kept saying I'd finally gotten some good luck and that I was really starting to notice the girls. Then, in the blink of an eye, the fourth weekend arrived.
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