童养媳妇 (童養媳婦)
tóng yǎng xí fù
Pinyin

Definition

童养媳妇 (童養媳婦)
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tóng yǎng xí fù
  1. child bride
  2. girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law

Related Words (20)

ér tóng
  1. 1 child
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
xí fù
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
  2. 2 wife (of a younger man)
  3. 3 young married woman
  4. 4 young woman
tóng nián
  1. 1 childhood
tóng huà
  1. 1 children's fairy tales
ér xí
  1. 1 daughter-in-law

Idioms (6)

媳妇熬成婆
xí fù áo chéng pó
  1. 1 lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
  3. 3 what goes around comes around
童叟无欺
tóng sǒu wú qī
  1. 1 cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
  2. 2 Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
童言无忌
tóng yán wú jì
  1. 1 children's words carry no harm (idiom)
返老还童
fǎn lǎo huán tóng
  1. 1 to recover one's youthful vigor
  2. 2 to feel rejuvenated (idiom)
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆
chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó
  1. 1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever