男左女右
nán zuǒ nu:3 yòu
Pinyin

Definition

男左女右
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nán zuǒ nu:3 yòu
  1. the left is for males, the right is for females (traditional saying)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
nǚ hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
Zuǒ
  1. 1 surname Zuo
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

Idioms (20)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
不为左右袒
bù wèi zuǒ yòu tǎn
  1. 1 to remain neutral in a quarrel (idiom)
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)