女大十八變
简 女大十八变 · 繁 女大十八變Meanings
- lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)
- fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
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3–4–2–1–4 · nu:3 da4 shi2 ba1 bian4
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neoi2 daai6 sap6 baat3 bin3
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- (idiomatic) All of the changes that a girl makes when turning into a woman; blossom into womanhood
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