闺女
guī nu:3
Pinyin

Definition

闺女
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guī nu:3
  1. maiden
  2. unmarried woman
  3. daughter

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

女
nu:3
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
女人
nu:3 rén
  1. 1 woman
女孩
nu:3 hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
美女
měi nu:3
  1. 1 beautiful woman
仙女
xiān nu:3
  1. 1 fairy
儿女
ér nu:3
  1. 1 children
  2. 2 sons and daughters
女儿
nu:3 ér
  1. 1 daughter
女友
nu:3 yǒu
  1. 1 girlfriend
女士
nu:3 shì
  1. 1 lady
  2. 2 madam
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè],位[wèi]
  4. 4 Miss
  5. 5 Ms
女婿
nu:3 xu
  1. 1 daughter's husband
  2. 2 son-in-law
女娲
Nu:3 wā
  1. 1 Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
女子
nu:3 zǐ
  1. 1 woman
  2. 2 female
女性
nu:3 xìng
  1. 1 woman
  2. 2 the female sex
女星
nu:3 xīng
  1. 1 female star
  2. 2 famous actress
女朋友
nu:3 péng you
  1. 1 girlfriend
女王
nu:3 wáng
  1. 1 queen
女生
nu:3 shēng
  1. 1 schoolgirl
  2. 2 female student
  3. 3 girl
女皇
nu:3 huáng
  1. 1 empress
女神
nu:3 shén
  1. 1 goddess
  2. 2 nymph
女装
nu:3 zhuāng
  1. 1 women's clothes

Idioms (17)

三个女人一台戏
sān ge nu:3 rén yī tái xì
  1. 1 three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
女大不中留
nu:3 dà bù zhōng liú
  1. 1 when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
女大十八变
nu:3 dà shí bā biàn
  1. 1 lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
女子无才便是德
nu:3 zǐ wú cái biàn shì dé
  1. 1 a woman's virtue is to have no talent (idiom)
女扮男装
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
女生外向
nu:3 shēng wài xiàng
  1. 1 a woman is born to leave her family (idiom)
  2. 2 a woman's heart is with her husband
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
少女露笑脸，婚事半成全
shào nu:3 lù xiào liǎn , hūn shì bàn chéng quán
  1. 1 When the girl smiles, the matchmaker's job is half done. (idiom)
望女成凤
wàng nu:3 chéng fèng
  1. 1 lit. to hope one's daughter becomes a phoenix (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to hope one's daughter is a success in life
男尊女卑
nán zūn nu:3 bēi
  1. 1 to regard men as superior to women (idiom)
男扮女装
nán bàn nu:3 zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
男欢女爱
nán huān nu:3 ài
  1. 1 passionate love (idiom)
神女有心，襄王无梦
shén nu:3 yǒu xīn , Xiāng Wáng wú mèng
  1. 1 lit. the fairy is willing, but King Xiang doesn't dream (idiom)
  2. 2 (said of a woman's unrequited love)
红男绿女
hóng nán lu:4 nu:3
  1. 1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
绿女红男
lu:4 nu:3 hóng nán
  1. 1 young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)
重男轻女
zhòng nán qīng nu:3
  1. 1 to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)
金童玉女
jīn tóng yù nu:3
  1. 1 lit. golden boys and jade maidens (idiom)
  2. 2 attendants of the Daoist immortals
  3. 3 fig. lovely young children
  4. 4 a golden couple
  5. 5 (of a couple who are in the public eye) a lovely young couple

Sample Sentences

沈总，您不能这样欺负人！人家一个黄花大闺女，你........我以后可怎么办啊！
Shěn zǒng ，nín bùnéng zhèyàng qīfu rén ！rénjiā yī ge huánghuādàguīnü ，nǐ ........wǒ yǐhòu kě zěnme bàn a ！
Manager Shen, you can't pick on me like that! I'm just an innocent young girl, and you're...what will I do?!
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哎，我们干着急也没用。再说有闺女在身边照顾你，多好啊。
ài ，wǒmen gān zháojí yě méiyòng 。zài shuō yǒu guīnü zài shēnbiān zhàogu nǐ ，duō hǎo a 。
Ah, it doesn't do any good for us to worry pointlessly. And anyway, you've got your daughter at your side to take care of you. That's great.
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也不好啊。我闺女到现在还是单身呢。我们介绍的她看不上，自己找的又都没谈出结果。
yě bù hǎo a 。wǒ guīnü dào xiànzài hái shì dānshēn ne 。wǒmen jièshào de tā kànbushàng ，zìjǐ zhǎo de yòu dōu méi tán chū jiéguǒ 。
Actually, I'm no better. My little girl is still single. She doesn't like the people we introduce her to. And nothing has ever come of the ones she finds on her own.
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