男婚女嫁
nán hūn nu:3 jià
Pinyin
Definition
男婚女嫁
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- to celebrate a wedding
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
因孕而婚
- 1 shotgun wedding (idiom)
天要落雨,娘要嫁人
- 1 the rain will fall, the womenfolk will marry (idiom)
- 2 fig. the natural order of things
- 3 something you can't go against
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