女扮男装

女扮男裝
nǚbàn-nánzhuāng
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 (of a woman) to disguise oneself as a man
  2. 2 to dress as a man

Examples

HSK 4
Wèile jìnrù zhǐ shōu nánshēng de xuéxiào, tā bùdébù nǚbàn-nánzhuāng.
To get into a school that only took boys, she had to disguise herself as one.
HSK 6
Xì lǐ de nǚzhǔjué nǚbàn-nánzhuāng, piànguò le suǒyǒu rén.
The heroine of the play disguised herself as a man and fooled everyone.

Tips

culture
The two best-known cases are 花木兰, who went to war in her father's place, and 祝英台 of the Butterfly Lovers, who studied at an academy dressed as a young man. The reverse is 男扮女装.

Stroke Order

女 nǚ
扮 bàn
男 nán
装 zhuāng