"巾幗不讓鬚眉" meaning in Chinese

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Phrase

IPA: /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʐɑŋ⁵¹ ɕy⁵⁵ meɪ̯³⁵/ [Mandarin, Standard-Chinese, Sinological-IPA], /kɐn⁵⁵ kʷɔːk̚³ pɐt̚⁵ jœːŋ²² sou̯⁵⁵ mei̯²¹/ [Cantonese, Guangzhou, Sinological-IPA] Forms: 巾帼不让须眉 [Simplified-Chinese]
Head templates: {{head|zh|idiom}} 巾幗不讓鬚眉
  1. (of a woman) to not be worse than men; to not be inferior to men; to be as good as men Tags: idiomatic
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巾帼不让须眉",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "巾幗不讓鬚眉",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to not be worse than men; to not be inferior to men; to be as good as men"
      ],
      "id": "en-巾幗不讓鬚眉-zh-phrase-J5pgAEuF",
      "links": [
        [
          "worse",
          "worse"
        ],
        [
          "men",
          "men"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a woman) to not be worse than men; to not be inferior to men; to be as good as men"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a woman"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīnguóbùràngxūméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄐㄧㄣ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄤˋ ㄒㄩ ㄇㄟˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok³ bat¹ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīnguóbùràngxūméi [Phonetic: jīnguóbúràngxūméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄐㄧㄣ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄤˋ ㄒㄩ ㄇㄟˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jinguóbùràngsyuméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chin¹-kuo²-pu⁴-jang⁴-hsü¹-mei²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīn-gwó-bù-ràng-syū-méi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jingwoburanqshiumei"
    },
    {
      "roman": "czinʹgobužansjujmɛj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цзиньгобужансюймэй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʐɑŋ⁵¹ ɕy⁵⁵ meɪ̯³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok³ bat¹ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gān gwok bāt yeuhng sōu mèih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok⁸ bat⁷ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gen¹ guog³ bed¹ yêng⁶ sou¹ méi⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɐn⁵⁵ kʷɔːk̚³ pɐt̚⁵ jœːŋ²² sou̯⁵⁵ mei̯²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "巾幗不讓鬚眉"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "巾帼不让须眉",
      "tags": [
        "Simplified-Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "巾幗不讓鬚眉",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 不",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 巾",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 幗",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 眉",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 讓",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 鬚",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Mandarin idioms",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin words containing 不 undergoing tone sandhi",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to not be worse than men; to not be inferior to men; to be as good as men"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "worse",
          "worse"
        ],
        [
          "men",
          "men"
        ],
        [
          "inferior",
          "inferior"
        ],
        [
          "good",
          "good"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a woman) to not be worse than men; to not be inferior to men; to be as good as men"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a woman"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīnguóbùràngxūméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄐㄧㄣ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄤˋ ㄒㄩ ㄇㄟˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok³ bat¹ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīnguóbùràngxūméi [Phonetic: jīnguóbúràngxūméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "ㄐㄧㄣ ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄖㄤˋ ㄒㄩ ㄇㄟˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jinguóbùràngsyuméi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Wade-Giles"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "chin¹-kuo²-pu⁴-jang⁴-hsü¹-mei²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jīn-gwó-bù-ràng-syū-méi"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "jingwoburanqshiumei"
    },
    {
      "roman": "czinʹgobužansjujmɛj",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Palladius"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "цзиньгобужансюймэй"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ku̯ɔ³⁵ pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ʐɑŋ⁵¹ ɕy⁵⁵ meɪ̯³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Standard-Chinese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok³ bat¹ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gān gwok bāt yeuhng sōu mèih"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gan¹ gwok⁸ bat⁷ joeng⁶ sou¹ mei⁴"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh_pron": "gen¹ guog³ bed¹ yêng⁶ sou¹ méi⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɐn⁵⁵ kʷɔːk̚³ pɐt̚⁵ jœːŋ²² sou̯⁵⁵ mei̯²¹/",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Standard-Cantonese",
        "Hong Kong"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangzhou",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "巾幗不讓鬚眉"
}

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