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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Additional PoS:

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 7968 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
See all 20 compounds (CantoDict reports 22 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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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Decimal representation of this word: 淫
Unicode code for this character: U+6deb (off-site link)

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