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Definition(s) for: 新婚燕尔

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
新婚燕尔 xīn hūn - yàn ěr - (idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married

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HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 85,917 73,889

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
xīn- abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆[Xin1jiang1]
- abbr. for Singapore 新加坡[Xin1jia1po1]
- surname Xin
xīn- new
- newly
- meso- (chemistry)
hūn- to marry
- marriage
- wedding
- to take a wife
yān- Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning
- north Hebei
- the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337-370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384-409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398-410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409-436)
- surname Yan
yàn- swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- old variant of 宴[yan4]
yàn- variant of 燕[yan4]
ěr- variant of 爾|尔[er3]
ěr- thus
- so
- like that
- you
- thou

Other Words Containing 新婚燕尔

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo