| 娼 | |||
| prostitute, harlot | |||
| Radical | 女女 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | chāng | Cantonese reading | coeng1 |
| Japanese on reading | shou | Japanese kun reading | asobime |
| Korean reading | chang | Vietnamese reading | |
| 娼 | |||
| prostitute, harlot | |||
| Radical | 女女 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 11 |
| Mandarin reading | chāng | Cantonese reading | coeng1 |
| Japanese on reading | shou | Japanese kun reading | asobime |
| Korean reading | chang | Vietnamese reading | |
| 娼妇 | [ chāng fù ] prostitute |
| ⇒ 笑贫不笑娼 | [ pín bù 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) |
| ⇒ 逼良为娼 | [ bī liáng weí chāng ] to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom), to debauch |