CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

老板娘

lǎobǎnniáng

female proprietor

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

female proprietor

lady boss

boss's wife

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 老板娘 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老板娘 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

楼下小吃店的老板娘，眉毛画成一条线，嘴唇涂成正红色，脸颊上还有颗爱国痣。不是什麽大家闺秀，但却风风火火、精明能干，是个能撑起半边天的劳动女性。lóu xià xiǎo chī diàn de lǎo bǎn niáng， méi máo huà chéng yī tiáo xiàn， zuǐ chún tú chéng zhèng hóng sè， liǎn jiá shàng hái yǒu kē ài guó zhì。 bú shì shén mó dà jiā guī xiù， dàn què fēng fēng huǒ huǒ、 jīng míng néng gàn， shì gè néng chēng qǐ bàn biān tiān de láo dòng nǚ xìng。

The aunty who runs the little eatery downstairs draws her eyebrows as a single straight line, paints her lips a bold red, and has a beauty mark on her cheek. She's no refined, well-bred lady, but she's brisk and capable, sharp and competent, the kind of hardworking woman who can hold up half the sky.

这个公司的老板娘脸皮很厚。zhè ge gōng sī de lǎo bǎn niáng liǎn pí hěn hòu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 老板娘.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老板娘.

Directly before

的老板娘2

Directly after

老板娘脸皮1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 老板娘

What does 老板娘 mean in Chinese?

老板娘 (lǎobǎnniáng) means female proprietor.

How do you pronounce 老板娘?

老板娘 is pronounced lǎobǎnniáng.

Is 老板娘 an HSK word?

老板娘 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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