tóng
yǎng

common

Meaning of 童养媳

童养媳 means a child bride; a young girl adopted into a family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. Pronounced tóng yǎng xí.

  • a child bride; a young girl adopted into a family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law

Definitions & Examples

de
nǎi
nai
xiǎo
shí
hòu
shì
tóng
yǎng
 
chī
le
hěn
duō
 

My grandmother was a child bride when she was young and suffered a lot.

Tóng
yǎng
zhì
shì
fēng
jiàn
shè
huì
de
zhǒng
lòu
 

The child bride system was a bad custom of feudal society.

xiǎo
hái
bèi
sòng
dào
jiā
zuò
tóng
yǎng
shí
zhǐ
yǒu
suì
 

That little girl was only eight years old when she was sent to her husband's family as a child bride.

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