







男大须婚,女大必嫁 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “it is a traditional belief or expectation that men should marry when they come of age and women should be married when they reach maturity, signifying the natural progression of life stages”. Literally, “When a man grows up, he must marry; when a woman grows up, she must marry”.

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Open the tool →男大须婚,女大必嫁 (nán dà xū hūn , nǚ dà bì jià) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “it is a traditional belief or expectation that men should marry when they come of age and women should be married when they reach maturity, signifying the natural progression of life stages”.
男大须婚,女大必嫁 is pronounced nán dà xū hūn , nǚ dà bì jià in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 男大须婚,女大必嫁 means “When a man grows up, he must marry; when a woman grows up, she must marry”. It is used to mean “it is a traditional belief or expectation that men should marry when they come of age and women should be married when they reach maturity, signifying the natural progression of life stages”.
指男女长大成年当须婚嫁