童养媳
tóng yǎng xí
Pinyin

Definition

童养媳
 - 
tóng yǎng xí
  1. child bride
  2. girl adopted into a family as future daughter-in-law

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

儿童
ér tóng
  1. 1 child
  2. 2 CL:個|个[gè]
媳妇
xí fù
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
  2. 2 wife (of a younger man)
  3. 3 young married woman
  4. 4 young woman
童年
tóng nián
  1. 1 childhood
童话
tóng huà
  1. 1 children's fairy tales
儿媳
ér xí
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
儿媳妇
ér xí fu
  1. 1 daughter-in-law
女童
nu:3 tóng
  1. 1 small girl
娶媳妇
qǔ xí fù
  1. 1 to get oneself a wife
  2. 2 to take a daughter-in-law
婆媳
pó xí
  1. 1 mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
媳妇儿
xí fu r5
  1. 1 wife
  2. 2 young married woman
孩童
hái tóng
  1. 1 child
小媳妇
xiǎo xí fu
  1. 1 young married woman
  2. 2 mistress
  3. 3 (fig.) punching bag
  4. 4 (old) child bride
神童
shén tóng
  1. 1 child prodigy
童
Tóng
  1. 1 surname Tong
童子
tóng zǐ
  1. 1 boy
童心
tóng xīn
  1. 1 childish heart
  2. 2 childish innocence
童星
tóng xīng
  1. 1 child star
童真
tóng zhēn
  1. 1 childishness
  2. 2 naivete
童装
tóng zhuāng
  1. 1 children's clothing
童言无忌
tóng yán wú jì
  1. 1 children's words carry no harm (idiom)

Idioms (6)

媳妇熬成婆
xí fù áo chéng pó
  1. 1 lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
  3. 3 what goes around comes around
童叟无欺
tóng sǒu wú qī
  1. 1 cheating neither old nor young (idiom); treating youngsters and old folk equally scrupulously
  2. 2 Our house offers sincere treatment to all and fair trade to old and young alike.
童言无忌
tóng yán wú jì
  1. 1 children's words carry no harm (idiom)
返老还童
fǎn lǎo huán tóng
  1. 1 to recover one's youthful vigor
  2. 2 to feel rejuvenated (idiom)
丑媳妇早晚也得见公婆
chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yě děi jiàn gōng pó
  1. 1 lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's not something you can avoid forever
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

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