三個女人一臺戲
简 三个女人一台戏 · 繁 三個女人一臺戲Meanings
- three women are enough for a drama (idiom)
Characters in this entry
- 三
- sān · three
- 個
- gè · numerary adjunct, piece; single
- 女
- nǚ · woman, girl; feminine; Kangxi radical 38; 10th lunar mansion, determinative star ε Aquarii (Albali)
- 人
- rén · man; people; mankind; someone else
- 一
- yī · one; a, an; alone
- 臺
- Look up this written character
- 戲
- Look up this written character
- 个
- gè · numerary adjunct, piece; single
- 台
- tái · platform; unit; term of address
- 戏
- xì · theatrical play, show
Explore the spelling
Mandarin tones
1–5–3–2–1–2–4 · san1 ge5 nu:3 ren2 yi1 tai2 xi4
Compare attested words with these syllables ↗Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.
Connected dictionary
Read this spelling in Classical texts
Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.
三個女人一臺戲 · find source passages ↗ · 三个女人一台戏 · find source passages ↗
Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 1 sense · 1 Cantonese reading
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
saam1 go3 neoi5 jan4 jat1 toi4 hei3
Cantonese word readings for 三個女人一臺戲. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack
Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
proverb
- when women get together they are bound to start chatting and cause a scene
Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack