怀胎十月

懷胎十月
huáitāi shíyuè
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 ten months of pregnancy
  2. 2 to carry a child for ten lunar months

Examples

Mǔqīn huáitāi shíyuè zhēnde bùróng yì.
Carrying a child for ten months is truly hard for a mother.
Huáitāi shíyuè, yì zhāo fēnmiǎn.
Ten months' pregnancy culminates in one moment of birth.

Tips

culture
Traditional Chinese reckoning counts pregnancy as ten lunar months (around 40 weeks, close to the Western nine-month count). The phrase is often used rhetorically to invoke a mother's sacrifice.

Stroke Order

怀 huái
tāi
shí
yuè