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好男不跟女斗

hǎo nán bù gēn nǚ dòudictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-6116bdfcd8222cfe. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

好男不跟女鬥 好男不跟女斗 [hao3 nan2 bu4 gen1 nu:3 dou4] /a real man doesn't fight with womenfolk (idiom)/

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Other forms in these source records: 好男不跟女鬥

  • 好
    hǎo

    good / appropriate / proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a form of address) hello

    hào

    to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

  • 男
    nán

    (bound form) male / baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]

  • 不
    bù

    no / not so / (bound form) not / un-

  • 跟
    gēn

    heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)

  • 女
    nǚ

    female / woman / daughter

    rǔ

    See the full entry for source details.

  • 斗
    dǒu

    dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[shēng] or one-tenth of a 石[dàn] / decaliter / peck / cup or dipper shaped object

    dòu

    to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together

    Dǒu

    abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Běi dǒu xīng]

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.