女大不中留
nǚ​dà​bú​zhòng​liú

a grown daughter must be married off

  • created sense approved 女大不中留 · nǚ​dà​bú​zhòng​liú · a grown daughter must be married off — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    女大不中留

    nǚ​dà​bú​zhòng​liú

    a grown daughter must be married off

    (idiom) a grown girl should not be kept at home; she must be married off when she comes of age

    nǚ​dà​bù​zhōng​liú

    女 (literal) → 女 · nǚ · daughter 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 中 (literal) → 中 · zhōng · to be OK 留 (literal) → 留 · liú · to keep

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

    created sense