女大十八变 nǚ dà shí bā biàn

girls change a lot as they grow up

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was
  2. 2. lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom)

Characters

Character Meaning
female; woman; daughter
big; large; great
ten; 10
eight; 8
to change; to become different; to transform