黄花 (黃花)
huáng huā
Pinyin

Definition

黄花 (黃花)
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huáng huā
  1. yellow flowers (of various types)
  2. chrysanthemum
  3. cauliflower
  4. (yellow) daylily
  5. a young virgin (boy or girl)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

桃花运
táo huā yùn
  1. 1 luck with the ladies
  2. 2 a romance
  3. 3 good luck
烟花
yān huā
  1. 1 fireworks
  2. 2 prostitute (esp. in Yuan theater)
花
Huā
  1. 1 surname Hua
雪花
xuě huā
  1. 1 snowflake
鲜花
xiān huā
  1. 1 flower
  2. 2 fresh flowers
  3. 3 classifier: 朵 duǒ

Idioms (20)

借花献佛
jiè huā xiàn Fó
  1. 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
  2. 2 plagiarism
名花有主
míng huā yǒu zhǔ
  1. 1 the girl is already taken (idiom)
天花乱坠
tiān huā luàn zhuì
  1. 1 lit. a deluge of heavenly flowers (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extravagant embellishments
  3. 3 hype
奇花异卉
qí huā yì huì
  1. 1 exotic flowers and rare herbs (idiom)
奇花异草
qí huā yì cǎo
  1. 1 very rarely seen, unusual (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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那你可真要接受再教育了。你说的这些新游戏，其实也已经是昨日黄花了，还有更多新的游戏呢。比如我现在玩的“魔兽世界”，“使命”，才是人气最旺的。
nà nǐ kě zhēn yào jiēshòu zài jiāoyù le 。nǐ shuō de zhèxiē xīn yóuxì ，qíshí yě yǐjīng shì zuórì huánghuā le ，hái yǒu gèngduō xīn de yóuxì ne 。bǐrú wǒ xiànzài wánr de “móshòu shìjiè ”，“shǐmìng ”，cái shì rénqì zuì wàng de 。
Well, then, you really need some re-education. These ''new" games you're talking about are actually old news. There are even more new games. For example, I'm playing ''World of Warcraft," and ''Call of Duty." Those are some really hot games.
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