金童玉女

Chinese

			beautiful girl; fairy; nymph beautiful girl; fairy; nymph; sprite
trad. (金童玉女)		金童	玉女
simp. ^#(金童玉女)		金童	玉女

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīntóngyùnǚ

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄩˋ ㄋㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi^5-2
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kîm-thùng-ngiu̍k-ńg
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kim-tông gio̍k-lú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jīntóngyùnǚ
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄩˋ ㄋㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jintóngyùnyǔ
  - Wade–Giles: chin¹-tʻung²-yü⁴-nü³
  - Yale: jīn-túng-yù-nyǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jintorngyuhneu
  - Palladius: цзиньтунъюйнюй (czinʹtunʺjujnjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ³⁵ y⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁶ neoi^5-2
  - Yale: gām tùhng yuhk néuih / gām tùhng yuhk néui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁹ noey⁵ / gam¹ tung⁴ juk⁹ noey^5-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ tung⁴ yug⁶ nêu⁵ / gem¹ tung⁴ yug⁶ nêu^5-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹ jʊk̚² nɵy̯¹³/, /kɐm⁵⁵ tʰʊŋ²¹ jʊk̚² nɵy̯¹³⁻³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kîm-thùng-ngiu̍k-ńg
  - Hakka Romanization System: gim^ˊ tung^ˇ ngiug ng^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gim¹ tung² ngiug⁶ ng³
  - Sinological IPA: /kim²⁴ tʰuŋ¹¹ ŋi̯uk̚⁵ ŋ̍³¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kim-tông gio̍k-lú
  - Tâi-lô: kim-tông gio̍k-lú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kimdoong giogluo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kim⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² lu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kim³³ tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² ɡiɔk̚²⁴⁻² lu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kim⁴⁴⁻²² tɔŋ¹³⁻²² ɡiɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ lu⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kim⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² lu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kim⁴⁴⁻³³ tɔŋ²³⁻³³ ɡiɔk̚⁴⁻³² lu⁴¹/

Idiom

金童玉女

(Taoism) child attendants of the immortals
(figurative) innocent and lovely young children
- 金童玉女意投機，才子佳人世罕稀。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
  金童玉女意投机，才子佳人世罕稀。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]
  From: 李好古, 張羽煮海
  Jīntóngyùnǚ yì tóujī, cáizǐjiārén shì hǎn xī. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
(figurative) talented and good-looking couple; lovely young couple

References

“金童玉女”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.