金童玉女

Chinese

			beautiful girl; fairy; nymph beautiful girl; fairy; nymph; sprite
trad. (金童玉女)		金童	玉女
simp. #(金童玉女)		金童	玉女

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīntóngyùnǚ

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄩˋ ㄋㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi^5-2
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kîm-thùng-ngiu̍k-ńg

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīntóngyùnǚ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄩˋ ㄋㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jintóngyùnyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹-tʻung²-yü⁴-nü³
    • Yale: jīn-túng-yù-nyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jintorngyuhneu
    • Palladius: цзиньтунъюйнюй (czinʹtunʺjujnjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ³⁵ y⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi^5-2
    • Yale: gām tùhng yuhk néuih / gām tùhng yuhk néui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁹ noey⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁹ noey^5-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ tung⁴ yug⁶ nêu⁵ / gem¹ tung⁴ yug⁶ nêu^5-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹ jʊk̚² nɵy̯¹³/, /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹ jʊk̚² nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîm-thùng-ngiu̍k-ńg
    • Hakka Romanization System: gim^ˊ tung^ˇ ngiug ng^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gim¹ tung² ngiug⁶ ng³
    • Sinological IPA: /kim²⁴ tʰuŋ¹¹ ŋi̯uk̚⁵ ŋ̍³¹/

Idiom

金童玉女

1. (Taoism) child attendants of the immortals
2. (figurative) innocent and lovely young children

   • 金童玉女意投機，才子佳人世罕稀。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     金童玉女意投机，才子佳人世罕稀。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: 李好古, 張羽煮海

     Jīntóngyùnǚ yì tóujī, cáizǐjiārén shì hǎn xī. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (figurative) talented and good-looking couple; lovely young couple

References

• “Entry #94042”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.