天壤王郎
tiān​rǎng​wáng​láng

to be married to an unsatisfactory husband

  • created sense approved 天壤王郎 · tiān​rǎng​wáng​láng · to be married to an unsatisfactory husband — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    天壤王郎

    tiān​rǎng​wáng​láng

    to be married to an unsatisfactory husband

    (idiom) used by a woman to express disappointment or dissatisfaction with her husband; based on a story from the "A New Account of the Tales of the World" where the poet Xie Daoyun expressed shock that a man like her husband could exist between heaven and earth

    天壤 (literal) → 天壤 · tiān​rǎng · heaven and earth 王 (literal) → 王 · wáng · Wang 郎 (literal) → 郎 · láng · young man

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense