女大十八变 |
nǚ dà shí bā biàn |
lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom) / fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was |
女 |
nǚ |
female / woman / daughter |
女 |
rǔ |
old variant of 汝 |
女大 |
nǚ dà |
(slang) female university student; female college student |
大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
十 |
shí |
ten / 10 |
十八 |
shí bā |
eighteen / 18 |
八 |
bā |
eight |
变 |
biàn |
to change / to become different / to transform / to vary / rebellion |