小登科
xiǎo​dēng​kē

to get married

  • created reference approved 小登科 → 大登科 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    小登科 xiǎo​dēng​kē

    大登科 dà​dēng​kē

    see

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  • created sense approved 小登科 · xiǎo​dēng​kē · to get married — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    小登科

    xiǎo​dēng​kē

    to get married

    (idiom, colloquial) to take a wife. Historically, passing the imperial examinations was known as [[大登科|大登科|da4 deng1 ke1]], while getting married was jokingly called this

    小 (literal) → 小 · xiǎo · small 登科 (literal) → 登科 · dēng​kē · to pass the imperial exams

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

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