弄璋
nòng​zhāng

to give birth to a son

  • created reference approved 弄璋 → 弄瓦 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    弄璋 nòng​zhāng

    弄瓦 nòng​wǎ

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 弄璋 · nòng​zhāng · to give birth to a son — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    弄璋

    nòng​zhāng

    to give birth to a son

    (literary) to have a baby boy or celebrate the birth of a son; originating from an ancient custom of giving a jade tablet to a boy to play with in the hope that he would grow up to have jade-like virtues

    弄, 璋

    弄 (literal) → 弄 · nòng · to play with 璋 (literal) → 璋 · zhāng · jade tablet

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

    created sense