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初歸新抱落地孩兒 (co1 gwai1 san1 pou5 lok6 dei6 haai4 ji4) — a new daughter in law is like a new born, meaning a new daughter in law to a family must learn all the new rules about the family she is marrying to from scratch again like a baby [colloquial] in Cantonese

coˉ¹初gwaiˉ¹歸sanˉ¹新pouˏ₅抱lokˍ₆落deiˍ₆地haaiˎ₄孩jiˎ₄兒
简 初归新抱落地孩儿
Mandarin Pinyin: chu1 gui1 xin1 bao4 luo4di4 hai2er2

Meaning of 初歸新抱落地孩兒

nouna new daughter in law is like a new born, meaning a new daughter in law to a family must learn all the new rules about the family she is marrying to from scratch again like a baby [colloquial]

Characters in 初歸新抱落地孩兒

初co1
original
歸gwai1
come together; converge; gather
新san1
recent; modern
抱pou5
embrace; hold in the arms; hug
落lok6
natural and poised
地dei6
earth; land; soil; ground
孩haai4
young; small
兒ji4
final particle / suffix, placed after many commonly used nouns to avoid employing one-syllable terms in speech (very common in the Beijing dialect 北京話, see: 兒化, 兒化韻)

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