晚婚

wǎnhūn

verb

Meanings

1 to marry late
2 late marriage

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Examples

现在大城市年轻人普遍晚婚。

Xiànzài dà chéngshì niánqīngrén pǔbiàn wǎnhūn.

Young people in big cities generally marry late now.

我想晚婚晚育。

Wǒ xiǎng wǎnhūn wǎnyù.

I want to marry and have children late.

晚婚的原因很多,经济压力是其中之一。

Wǎnhūn de yuányīn hěn duō, jīngjì yālì shì qízhōng zhī yī.

Late marriage has many causes; financial pressure is one of them.

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history

晚婚晚育 was a state slogan during one-child policy era, encouraging late marriage and late childbirth. Today it describes a demographic reality driving falling birth rates, and the state now promotes the opposite.

Stroke Order

晚 wǎn

婚 hūn