男尊女卑
nán zūn nǚ bēi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
The belief, or the social order, in which men rank higher than women. Today it is used critically, for traditional attitudes that treat women as inferior.
Đàn ông thì cao quý, đàn bà thì thấp hèn: quan niệm và trật tự xã hội đặt nam giới lên trên nữ giới. Ngày nay dùng với ý phê phán tư tưởng coi thường phụ nữ.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 女 = nữ, 卑 = ti; etymology of “nam tôn nữ ti” = 男尊女卑 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “nam tôn nữ ti” (nam-ton-nu-ti). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “男尊女卑” mean?
The belief, or the social order, in which men rank higher than women. Today it is used critically, for traditional attitudes that treat women as inferior. Literally: men exalted, women lowly
Is “男尊女卑” formal or informal?
男尊女卑 is generally neutral.