男左女右
nán zuǒ nu:3 yòu
Pinyin
Definition
男左女右
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- the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
不为左右袒
- 1 to remain neutral in a quarrel (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)