善男信女
shàn nán xìn nu:3
Pinyin

Definition

善男信女
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shàn nán xìn nu:3
  1. lay practitioners of Buddhism

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xìn
  1. 1 letter
  2. 2 mail
  3. 3 CL:封[fēng]
  4. 4 to trust
  5. 5 to believe
  6. 6 to profess faith in
  7. 7 truthful
  8. 8 confidence
  9. 9 trust
  10. 10 at will
  11. 11 at random
xìn xī
  1. 1 information
  2. 2 news
  3. 3 message
nu:3
  1. 1 female
  2. 2 woman
  3. 3 daughter
nu:3 rén
  1. 1 woman
nu:3 hái
  1. 1 girl
  2. 2 lass
nán
  1. 1 male
  2. 2 Baron, lowest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
xiāng xìn
  1. 1 to be convinced (that sth is true)
  2. 2 to believe
  3. 3 to accept sth as true
duǎn xìn
  1. 1 text message
  2. 2 SMS
měi nu:3
  1. 1 beautiful woman
xiān nu:3
  1. 1 fairy
xìn yǎng
  1. 1 to believe in (a religion)
  2. 2 firm belief
  3. 3 conviction
xìn rèn
  1. 1 to trust
  2. 2 to have confidence in
xìn xīn
  1. 1 confidence
  2. 2 faith (in sb or sth)
  3. 3 CL:個|个[gè]
xìn niàn
  1. 1 faith
  2. 2 belief
  3. 3 conviction
xìn yòng
  1. 1 to trust
  2. 2 credit (commerce)
  3. 3 trustworthiness
  4. 4 creditworthiness
xìn yòng kǎ
  1. 1 credit card
xìn hào
  1. 1 signal
xìn yù
  1. 1 prestige
  2. 2 distinction
  3. 3 reputation
  4. 4 trust
xìn lài
  1. 1 to trust
  2. 2 to have confidence in
  3. 3 to have faith in
  4. 4 to rely on

Idioms (20)

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)
乏善可陈
fá shàn kě chén
  1. 1 to be nothing to write home about (idiom)
来者不善,善者不来
lái zhě bù shàn , shàn zhě bù lái
  1. 1 He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).
  2. 2 Be careful not to trust foreigners.
  3. 3 Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!
信口开河
xìn kǒu kāi hé
  1. 1 to speak without thinking (idiom)
  2. 2 to blurt sth out
信孚中外
xìn fú zhōng wài
  1. 1 to be trusted both at home and abroad (idiom)
信心百倍
xìn xīn bǎi bèi
  1. 1 brimming with confidence (idiom)
劝善惩恶
quàn shàn chéng è
  1. 1 to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice
  2. 2 you get what's coming to you
善始善终
shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
  1. 1 where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth
  2. 2 to carry things through
  3. 3 I started, so I'll finish.
善有善报
shàn yǒu shàn bào
  1. 1 virtue has its rewards (idiom); one good turn deserves another
善自为谋
shàn zì wéi móu
  1. 1 to be good at working for one's own profit (idiom)
善自珍摄
shàn zì zhēn shè
  1. 1 take good care of yourself! (idiom)
善解人意
shàn jiě rén yì
  1. 1 to be good at understanding others (idiom)
善财难舍
shàn cái nán shě
  1. 1 to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity
  2. 2 skinflint
  3. 3 miserly
多愁善感
duō chóu shàn gǎn
  1. 1 melancholy and moody (idiom); depressed personality
多钱善贾
duō qián shàn gǔ
  1. 1 much capital, good business (idiom); fig. good trading conditions
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

Sample Sentences

当然咯!我们原来打算找个人少的时间去,早上七点就到那里了,没想到已经有许多人了。一打听,原来那天早上有法事,所以善男信女们都跑到那边去烧香了。
dāngrán lo !wǒmen yuánlái dǎsuàn zhǎo ge rén shǎo de shíjiān qù ,zǎoshang qī diǎn jiù dào nàlǐ le ,méixiǎngdào yǐjīng yǒu xǔduō rén le 。yī dǎting ,yuánlái nà tiān zǎoshang yǒu fǎshì ,suǒyǐ shànnán xìnnǚ men dōu pǎodào nàbiān qù shāoxiāng le 。
Of course we did! We originally wanted to go when it wouldn't be so crowded, so we got there at 7 in the morning. Who would have thought there'd already be so many people there. We asked about it and it turns out there was a Buddhist service that day, so all the Buddhist believers had come to burn incense.
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