女大十八變 nǚ dà shí bā biàn

girl grows up and changes a lot; becomes pretty

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
女 nǚ HSK 1
female; woman; daughter
大 dà HSK 1
big; large; great
十 shí HSK 1
ten; 10
八 bā HSK 1
eight; 8
變 biàn
to change; to become different; to transform