催婚

cuīhūn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to pressure someone to get married
  2. 2 to nag (a grown child) about marriage

Examples

HSK 3
Wǒ mā yòu kāishǐ cuīhūn le.
My mom has started pushing me to get married again.
HSK 6
Wèile duǒbì qīnqi cuīhūn, tā jīnnián Chūnjié gāncuì méi huí lǎojiā.
To escape his relatives' nagging about marriage, he simply didn't go home this Spring Festival.

Tips

culture
A fixture of Spring Festival: parents and aunts ask unmarried children about partners at every meal. People joke that the pressure comes in stages: 催婚 (get married), then 催生 (have a baby), then 催二胎 (have a second).

Stroke Order

催 cuī
婚 hūn