重男轻女
zhòng nán qīng nǚ
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 重男輕女
To value boys and men more than girls and women. Used to name and criticise the traditional preference for sons.
Coi trọng con trai, đàn ông và xem nhẹ con gái, phụ nữ. Dùng để gọi tên và phê phán tư tưởng chuộng con trai theo lối cũ.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (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; etymology of “trọng nam khinh nữ” = 重男輕女 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “trọng nam khinh nữ” (trong-nam-khinh-nu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “重男轻女” mean?
To value boys and men more than girls and women. Used to name and criticise the traditional preference for sons. Literally: treat males as weighty, females as light
Is “重男轻女” formal or informal?
重男轻女 is generally neutral.