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新娘

xīn niáng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

新娘 (xīn niáng) means "bride". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 新娘 means

1. bride

The characters in 新娘

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 娘niángmother; young lady; (colloquial) effeminate

Example sentences

• 新娘来了！
  Here comes the bride!
• 新娘好像非常漂亮。
  Xīnniáng hǎoxiàng fēicháng piàoliang.
  The bride seems to be very pretty.
• 新娘看起来非常漂亮。
  The bride looked very beautiful.
• 根据习俗，新娘应该循规蹈矩。
  Gēnjù xísú, xīnniáng yīnggāi xúnguīdǎojǔ.
  According to custom, the bride should be compliant.
• 请诸位斟满酒，为新郎和新娘干杯！
  Qǐng zhūwèi zhēn mǎn jiǔ, wèi xīnláng hé xīnniáng gānbēi!
  Please charge your glasses and drink a toast to the bride and groom!
• 发给好朋友的请帖上有新郎新娘合影的照片。
  There's a photo of the bride and groom together on the invitation sent to friends.

Words starting with 新娘

• 新娘秘书xīn niáng mì shū(Taiwan) bridal stylist
• 新娘子xīn niáng zisee 新娘

Where 新娘 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xīn–xìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xīn niáng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.