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"cowherd boy" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
牛郎 niú láng cowherd boy / (slang) male prostitute syn
Chinese Pinyin Translation
小子 xiǎo zi (coll.) boy / (derog.) joker / guy / (despicable) fellow syn
男孩 nán hái boy / CL:個|个[ge4]
男生 nán shēng schoolboy / male student / boy / guy (young adult male)
老弟 lǎo dì (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy / old pal syn
男孩子 nán hái zi boy
好家伙 hǎo jiā huo my God! / oh boy! / man! syn
童子 tóng zǐ boy syn
小儿 小兒 xiǎo r (coll.) early childhood / baby boy syn
男儿 男兒 nán ér a (real) man / boy / son syn
男童 nán tóng boy / male child syn
通讯员 通訊員 tōng xùn yuán correspondent / reporter / messenger boy syn
黄花 黃花 huáng huā yellow flowers (of various types) / chrysanthemum / cauliflower / (yellow) daylily / a young virgin (boy or girl) syn
牧童 mù tóng shepherd boy syn
鹊桥 鵲橋 què qiáo magpie bridge across the Milky Way between Altair and Vega where Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed an annual meeting
马前卒 馬前卒 mǎ qián zú lackey / errand boy / lit. runner before a carriage syn
小弟弟 xiǎo dì di little brother / little boy / (coll.) penis
七夕 qī xī double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting
小白脸 小白臉 xiǎo bái liǎn attractive young man (usually derog.) / pretty boy / gigolo
新丁 xīn dīng new addition to a family (i.e. a birth) / a boy who has just come of age / (in a job etc) newcomer / novice
球童 qiú tóng ball boy (tennis) / caddie (golf)
小皇帝 xiǎo huáng dì child emperor / (fig.) spoiled child / spoiled boy / pampered only child
幼齿 幼齒 yòu chǐ (Tw) naive and innocent (girl or boy) / underage prostitute (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [iù-khí])
束发 束髮 shù fà to tie up one's hair / (literary) (of a boy) to be in one's adolescence (in ancient China, boys tied up their hair)
校草 xiào cǎo the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiao4 hua1])
耳鬓厮磨 耳鬢廝磨 ěr bìn sī mó lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood syn
七夕节 七夕節 qī xī jié Qixi Festival or Double Seven Festival on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month / girls' festival / Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女[niu2 lang3 zhi1 nu:3] are allowed their annual meeting
桃太郎 táo tài láng Momotaro or Peach Boy, the hero of a Japanese folk tale / (Tw) Japanese person
花童 huā tóng page boy / flower girl (at a wedding)
僮 tóng servant boy
牵牛星 牽牛星 qiān niú xīng Altair (star) / Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 syn
娈童 孌童 luán tóng catamite (boy as homosexual partner) / kept man / gigolo
门童 門童 mén tóng doorman / bell boy
牛郎织女 牛郎織女 niú láng zhī nǚ Cowherd and Weaving maid (characters in folk story) / separated lovers / Altair and Vega (stars)
半大小子 bàn dà xiǎo zǐ teenage boy / adolescent boy
僮仆 僮僕 tóng pú boy servant
放羊娃 fàng yáng wá shepherd / shepherd boy
正太 zhèng tài young, cute boy / derived from Japanese loanword shotacon 正太控[zheng4 tai4 kong4]
男孩乐队 男孩樂隊 nán hái yuè duì boy band (type of pop group)
童儿 童兒 tóng ér boy
聘娶婚 pìn qǔ hūn formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents to the girl's family)
阿兵哥 ā bīng gē (coll.) soldier boy
世界童子军总部 世界童子軍總部 Boy Scouts World Bureau
哈利・波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
奶油小生 nǎi yóu xiǎo shēng handsome but effeminate man / pretty boy
仆欧 僕歐 pú ōu (old) waiter (loanword from "boy") / attendant
妈宝 媽寶 mā bǎo mama's boy
小寿星 小壽星 xiǎo shòu xīng child whose birthday is being celebrated / birthday boy / birthday girl
班草 bān cǎo the most handsome boy in the class
男娃 nán wá (dialect) boy / guy
小白 xiǎo bái (slang) novice / greenhorn / (old) (slang) fool / idiot / abbr. for 小白臉|小白脸[xiao3 bai2 lian3], pretty boy
哈利·波特 hā lì · bō tè Harry Potter, boy wizard in the novels by J.K. Rowling 羅琳|罗琳
小毛头 小毛頭 xiǎo máo tou (coll.) new-born baby / young boy
乖乖牌 guāi guāi pái good little boy (or girl)
酸儿辣女 酸兒辣女 suān ér là nǚ if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy / if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
小哥哥 xiǎo gē ge little boy who is older than another young child (e.g. his playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) amiable form of address for a young man of about one's own age or a little older
指腹为婚 指腹為婚 zhǐ fù wéi hūn to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom)
冠礼 冠禮 guàn lǐ the capping ceremony, a Confucian coming of age ceremony for males dating from pre-Qin times, performed when a boy reaches the age of 20, involving the ritual placing of caps on the head of the young man
弄璋 nòng zhāng (literary) to have a baby boy / to celebrate the birth of a son
朘 脧 zuī (literary) young boy’s penis
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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