男旦
nán dàn
Pinyin

Definition

男旦
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nán dàn
  1. male actor playing the female role (Chinese opera)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

男
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]
男人
nán rén
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
  3. 3 men
  4. 4 CL:個|个[gè]
一旦
yī dàn
  1. 1 in case (sth happens)
  2. 2 if
  3. 3 once (sth happens, then...)
  4. 4 when
  5. 5 in a short time
  6. 6 in one day
元旦
Yuán dàn
  1. 1 New Year's Day
宅男
zhái nán
  1. 1 a guy who stays at home all the time, typically spending a lot of time playing online games (derived from Japanese "otaku")
男儿
nán ér
  1. 1 a (real) man
  2. 2 boy
  3. 3 son
男友
nán yǒu
  1. 1 boyfriend
男士
nán shì
  1. 1 man
  2. 2 gentleman
男女
nán nu:3
  1. 1 male-female
  2. 2 male and female
男子
nán zǐ
  1. 1 a man
  2. 2 a male
男孩
nán hái
  1. 1 boy
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
男性
nán xìng
  1. 1 the male sex
  2. 2 a male
男朋友
nán péng you
  1. 1 boyfriend
男生
nán shēng
  1. 1 schoolboy
  2. 2 male student
  3. 3 boy
  4. 4 guy (young adult male)
男装
nán zhuāng
  1. 1 men's clothes
刀马旦
dāo mǎ dàn
  1. 1 female warrior role in Chinese opera
危在旦夕
wēi zài dàn xī
  1. 1 in imminent peril (idiom)
  2. 2 on the brink of crisis
善男信女
shàn nán xìn nu:3
  1. 1 lay practitioners of Buddhism
型男
xíng nán
  1. 1 fashionable and good-looking guy (slang)
大男人
dà nán rén
  1. 1 very masculine guy
  2. 2 a real man
  3. 3 (used ironically) a grown man

Idioms (14)

危在旦夕
wēi zài dàn xī
  1. 1 in imminent peril (idiom)
  2. 2 on the brink of crisis
命在旦夕
mìng zài dàn xī
  1. 1 to be at death's door (idiom)
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福
tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fú
  1. 1 fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
女扮男装
nu:3 bàn nán zhuāng
  1. 1 (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)
好男不跟女斗
hǎo nán bù gēn nu:3 dòu
  1. 1 a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
枕戈待旦
zhěn gē dài dàn
  1. 1 to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom)
  2. 2 fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle
男儿有泪不轻弹
nán ér yǒu lèi bù qīng tán
  1. 1 real men do not easily cry (idiom)
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)
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)
通宵达旦
tōng xiāo dá dàn
  1. 1 overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long
  2. 2 day and night
重男轻女
zhòng nán qīng nu:3
  1. 1 to value males and attach less importance to females (idiom)

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