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女扮男装

nǚ bàn nán zhuāng

4-character word Traditional 女扮男裝

What 女扮男装 means

1. (of a woman) to dress as a man (idiom)

The characters in 女扮男装

• 女nǚfemale; woman; daughter
• 扮bànto disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role)
• 男nán(bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位
• 装zhuāngadornment; to adorn; dress

Example sentences

• 她为了掩饰自己公主的身份，女扮男装，逃出了皇宫。
  Tā wèile yǎnshì zìjǐ gōngzhǔ de shēnfèn, nǚbàn-nánzhuāng, táo chū le huánggōng.
  To hide the fact that she's a princess, she disguised herself as a boy and escaped the palace.

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