鸳鸯蝴蝶派 yuān yang hú dié pài

sentimental romantic fiction school

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists

Characters

Character Meaning
鸳 yuān
mandarin duck
鸯 yang
mandarin duck
蝴 hú HSK 5
butterfly
蝶 dié HSK 5
butterfly; variant of 蝶dié
派 pài HSK 5
faction; group; school