倒 插 门

dào chā méndictionary entry

(of the husband) to marry into and live with the wife's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)

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Original source entry:

倒插門 倒插门 [dao4 cha1 men2] /(of the husband) to marry into and live with the wife's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)/

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Other forms in these source records: 倒插門

倒
dǎo
to fall / to collapse / to lie horizontally / to fail / to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit
dào
to invert / to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out / to dump / inverted / upside down / reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect / but / yet
插
chā
to insert / stick in / pierce / to take part in / to interfere / to interpose
门
mén
gate / door / doorway / gateway / opening (CL:扇[shàn]) / valve / switch / other door-like or gate-like structure / way to do sth / knack / method / approach / family / household / lineage / (bound form) sect / school / faction (religious or academic) / (bound form) class / category / division / phylum / classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc / (suffix) -gate (scandal)
Mén
surname Men

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