红男绿女 — Chinese idiom
红男绿女
hóng nán lǜ nǚ
Traditional: 紅男綠女
Meaning
- young people decked out in gorgeous clothes
Character by character
- 红hóngred, vermillion; to blush, to flush; popular
- 男nánman, boy; male; baron; surname
- 绿lǜgreen; chlorine
- 女nǚwoman, girl; female
Idioms sharing a character
- 一炮而红 yī pào ér hóng
- 姹紫嫣红 chà zǐ yān hóng
- 柳绿花红 liǔ lǜ huā hóng
- 灯红酒绿 dēng hóng jiǔ lǜ
- 看破红尘 kàn pò hóng chén
- 红杏出墙 hóng xìng chū qiáng
- 红颜薄命 hóng yán bó mìng
- 绿女红男 lǜ nǚ hóng nán
- 绿惨红愁 lǜ cǎn hóng chóu
- 脸红筋暴 liǎn hóng jīn bào
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