私定終身
sī​dìng​zhōng​shēn

to elope

  • created sense approved 私定终身/私定終身 · sī​dìng​zhōng​shēn · to elope — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    私定终身 / 私定終身

    sī​dìng​zhōng​shēn

    to elope

    to make a secret pledge to be married for life without parental or family permission

    私 (literal) → 私 · sī · secretly 定 (literal) → 定 · dìng · to decide 终身 (literal) → 终身/終身 · zhōng​shēn · marriage

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

    created sense