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徐娘半老
徐娘半老
Chinese
- {| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"
|- ! !slow; gentle; Xu (a surname) !mother; young lady
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half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
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old (of people); aged; venerable (person); outdated; experienced; (a prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity)
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!simp. and trad.
(徐娘半老)
| 徐
| 娘
| 半
| 老
|}
Idiom
徐娘半老
- the woman in her thirty-forties; be already in her middle age