Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「豆蔻年華」, explained here.
The featured idiom 「豆蔻年華」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Douqiu: a perennial herb, a metaphor for a virgin. Refers to a girl when she is thirteen or fourteen years old.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòu kòu nián huá
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dau2 kau3 nin4 wa4
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