荊釵布裙
jīng​chāi​bù​qún

plainly dressed

  • created sense approved 荆钗布裙/荊釵布裙 · jīng​chāi​bù​qún · plainly dressed — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    荆钗布裙 / 荊釵布裙

    jīng​chāi​bù​qún

    plainly dressed

    (idiom) thorn hairpin and cotton skirt; refers to the simple clothing of a woman from a poor household, often used to describe a woman who is modest and virtuous or lives frugally

    荆 (literal) → 荆/荊 · jīng · chaste tree 钗 (literal) → 钗/釵 · chāi · hairpin 布 (literal) → 布 · bù · cloth 裙 (literal) → 裙 · qún · skirt

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

    created sense