4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 832

Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「男耕女織」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「男耕女織」, with its definition and practical application described below.

In feudal society, the small peasant economy was run by individual households, with men farming and women weaving. Refers to the division of labor among the whole family.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

nán gēng nǚ zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

naam4 gaang1 neui5 jik1

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