淫 (jam4 | yin2) : licentious; lewd; adulterous; lust

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淫

jam4

yin2

[1] licentious; lewd; adulterous; lust
[2] excessive; extreme; unrestrained

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Stroke count: 11

Level: 3

Radical: 水 (#85)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

淫

This word has been viewed 7987 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 21st Aug 2013 18:09

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淫穢 jam4 wai3 yin2 hui4 = lewd

賣淫 maai6 jam4 mai4 yin2 = harlot, harlotry, prostitution, streetwalking, whore, whoredom

淫婦 jam4 fu5 yin2 fu4 = loose woman; whore; prostitute

手淫 sau2 jam4 shou3 yin2 = to masturbate; masturbation

淫棍 jam4 gwan3 yin2 gun3 = a lecher, a sexually aggressive male

賣淫網站 maai6 jam4 mong5 zaam6 = a website selling sex

姦淫 gaan1 jam4 jian1 yin2 = adultery; rape

淫褻 jam4 sit3 yin2 xie4 = obscene, obscenity

淫水 jam4 seoi2 yin2 shui3 = sexual secretions

淫賤 jam4 zin6 yin2 jian4 = morally loose, lewd and low, lascivious and mean; wanton

淫魔 jam4 mo1 yin2 mo2 = lecherous person; pervert; sex maniac

淫蕩 jam4 dong6 yin2 dang4 = licentious; have no moral restraint interms of sexuality;lascivious

淫賊 jam4 caak6 yin2 zei2 = pervert; someone who rapes and robs

淫竇 jam4 dau3 yin2 dou4 = a brothel; a whorehouse 粵

淫亂 jam4 lyun6 yin2 luan4 = promiscuous

行淫 hang4 jam4 xing2 yin2 = engage in sexual immorality

樂而不淫 lok6 ji4 bat1 jam4 le4 er2 bu4 yin2 = joy without licentiousness; joy without wantonness

淫雨 jam4 jyu5 yin2 yu3 = excessive rain [also written as 霪雨]

淫雨霏霏 jam4 jyu5 fei1 fei1 yin2 yu3 fei1 fei1 = successive heavy rainfall

荒淫 fong1 jam4 huang1 yin2 = licentious; waste away one's life over sex

Showing 1 example containing 淫

班山賊奸淫擄掠無惡不作
The gang of bandits rapes and pillages, and commits all kinds of atrocities.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Unicode code for this character: U+6deb (off-site link)

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