白首
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white; empty; blank white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous |
head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems | ||
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simp. and trad. (白首) |
白 | 首 |
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白首
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白首
- (literary, of a couple) to live together until the white hairs of old age; to grow old together
- 妾與君無媒妁之言,父母之命,逾牆鑽隙,何能白首? [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: 1740 CE, Pu Songling, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
- Qiè yǔ jūn wú méishuòzhīyán, fùmǔzhīmìng, yúqiángzuānxì, hé néng báishǒu? [Pinyin]
- You and I are meeting secretly without the words of a matchmaker and the commands of our parents. How can we live together until our hairs turn grey?
妾与君无媒妁之言,父母之命,逾墙钻隙,何能白首? [Literary Chinese, simp.]- 寧願能白首 還是罷手 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
- From: 2019, 林家謙 [Terence Lam], 下一位前度 [NEXT]
- ning4 jyun6 nang4 baak6 sau2, waan4 si6 baa6 sau2 [Jyutping]
- Would I rather be able to grow old together [with them] or let go?
宁愿能白首 还是罢手 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
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