女大十八变
Traditional form:
女大十八變
Pinyin (reading):
nüdàshíbābiàn
Definitions:
- 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
Characters:
- 女 - woman, girl; female
- 大 - big, great, vast, high, deep
- 十 - ten, tenth; complete; perfect
- 八 - eight; all around, all sides
- 变 - to change, to transform, to alter; rebel
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