闺女 (閨女)
guī nu:3
Pinyin

Definition

闺女 (閨女)
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guī nu:3
  1. maiden
  2. unmarried woman
  3. daughter

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

女
nǚ
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
女人
nǚ rén
  1. 1 woman
女孩
nǚ hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
美女
měi nǚ
  1. 1 beautiful woman
仙女
xiān nǚ
  1. 1 fairy

Idioms (17)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nǚ rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (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)
女扮男装
nǚ bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)

Sample Sentences

沈总，您不能这样欺负人！人家一个黄花大闺女，你........我以后可怎么办啊！
Shěn zǒng ，nín bùnéng zhèyàng qīfu rén ！rénjiā yī ge huánghuādàguīnü ，nǐ ........wǒ yǐhòu kě zěnme bàn a ！
Manager Shen, you can't pick on me like that! I'm just an innocent young girl, and you're...what will I do?!
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哎，我们干着急也没用。再说有闺女在身边照顾你，多好啊。
ài ，wǒmen gān zháojí yě méiyòng 。zài shuō yǒu guīnü zài shēnbiān zhàogu nǐ ，duō hǎo a 。
Ah, it doesn't do any good for us to worry pointlessly. And anyway, you've got your daughter at your side to take care of you. That's great.
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也不好啊。我闺女到现在还是单身呢。我们介绍的她看不上，自己找的又都没谈出结果。
yě bù hǎo a 。wǒ guīnü dào xiànzài hái shì dānshēn ne 。wǒmen jièshào de tā kànbushàng ，zìjǐ zhǎo de yòu dōu méi tán chū jiéguǒ 。
Actually, I'm no better. My little girl is still single. She doesn't like the people we introduce her to. And nothing has ever come of the ones she finds on her own.
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