童女
tóng nu:3
Pinyin
Definition
童女
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- virgin female
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
三个女人一台戏
- 1 three women are enough for a drama (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)
女扮男装
- 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
Sample Sentences
你没听说过“徐福东渡”吗?就是秦始皇让徐福带着三千童男童女去找长生不老药,后来他们就定居日本了,徐福他们就是日本人的祖先!
You've never heard of ''Xu Fu's Voyage to the East?" That was when Qin Shihuang had Xu Fu take 3000 young men and women to look for an immortality medicine. Afterwards, they settled in Japan. Xu Fu and his crew are the ancestors of the Japanese people.