情窦初开 — Chinese idiom
情窦初开
qíng dòu chū kāi
Traditional: 情竇初開
Meaning
- first awakening of love (usually of a girl)
Character by character
- 情qíngemotion, feeling, sentiment
- 窦dòusinuses; corrupt; surname
- 初chūbeginning, initial, primary
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
Idioms sharing a character
- 一见钟情 yī jiàn zhōng qíng
- 七情六欲 qī qíng liù yù
- 不情之请 bù qíng zhī qǐng
- 不近人情 bù jìn rén qíng
- 人之常情 rén zhī cháng qíng
- 入情入理 rù qíng rù lǐ
- 反脸无情 fǎn liǎn wú qíng
- 合情合理 hé qíng hé lǐ
- 含情脉脉 hán qíng mò mò
- 径情直遂 jìng qíng zhí suì
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.