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弄璋
nòng​zhāng

to give birth to a son

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
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

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  • 弄瓦 nòng​wǎ

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BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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