kū​yáng​shēng​tí

to marry a young wife as an old man

  • created sense approved 枯杨生稊/枯楊生稊 · kū​yáng​shēng​tí · to marry a young wife as an old man — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    枯杨生稊 / 枯楊生稊

    kū​yáng​shēng​tí

    to marry a young wife as an old man

    Literally "a withered poplar grows a new shoot"; used to describe an old man marrying a young woman or fathering a child at an advanced age.

    枯 (literal) → 枯 · kū · withered 杨 (literal) → 杨/楊 · yáng · poplar 生 (literal) → 生 · shēng · to grow 稊 (literal) → 稊 · tí · sprout

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