Memory phrase for the character: 娼


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Meaning prostitute

Pronunciation

chāng

Explanation

Left: woman , right: to flourish (Two suns and it is flourishing)

Mnemonic


 
The woman like two suns is: the prostitute.

Radicals

womanThe character for tall shows a person with outstretched arms . If you shift the lower strokes towards each other, you can get the: woman . The wider lower area can be understood as female hips?
prosperous, flourishing
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 Vocabulary

娼妓 chāng jì  prostitute
笑贫不笑娼 xiào pín bù xiào chāng  the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty; lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom)
暗娼 àn chāng  unlicensed (unregistered) prostitute
暗娼 àn chāng  


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