男旦
nán dàn
Pinyin

Definition

男旦
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nán dàn
  1. male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
yī dàn
  1. 1 in case (sth happens)
  2. 2 if
  3. 3 once (sth happens, then...)
  4. 4 when
  5. 5 in a short time
  6. 6 in one day
Yuán dàn
  1. 1 New Year's Day
zhái nán
  1. 1 a guy who stays at home all the time, typically spending a lot of time playing online games (derived from Japanese "otaku")

Idioms (14)

危在旦夕
wēi zài dàn xī
  1. 1 in imminent peril (idiom)
  2. 2 on the brink of crisis
命在旦夕
mìng zài dàn xī
  1. 1 to be at death's door (idiom)
天有不测风云,人有旦夕祸福
tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú
  1. 1 fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
女扮男装
nǚ bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nǚ dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)