Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「及笄年華」, with details below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「及笄年華」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Ji: A hairpin used for bunting hair in ancient times. In ancient times, an engaged woman would come of age at the age of fifteen, while an unengaged woman would come of age at the age of twenty. Refers to a girl reaching the age to get married.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jí jī nián huá
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kap6 gai1 nin4 wa4
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