處子
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Chinese
[edit]to reside; to stay at home; virginity | child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight | ||
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trad. (處子) | 處 | 子 | |
simp. (处子) | 处 | 子 |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˇ ㄗˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: chǔzǐh
- Wade–Giles: chʻu3-tzŭ3
- Yale: chǔ-dž
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuutzyy
- Palladius: чуцзы (čuczy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: cyu2 zi2
- Yale: chyú jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsy2 dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: qu2 ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰyː³⁵ t͡siː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Middle Chinese: tsyhoX tsiX
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*t.qʰaʔ [ts]əʔ|tsəʔ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*kʰljaʔ ʔslɯʔ/
Noun
[edit]處子
- unmarried woman
- (literary) female virgin; maiden
- 踰東家牆而摟其處子,則得妻;不摟,則不得妻,則將摟之乎? [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
- Yú dōngjiā qiáng ér lōu qí chùzǐ, zé dé qī; bù lōu, zé bù dé qī, zé jiāng lōu zhī hū? [Pinyin]
- If by getting over your neighbour's wall, and dragging away his virgin daughter, you can get a wife, while if you do not do so, you will not be able to get a wife, will you so drag her away?
逾东家墙而搂其处子,则得妻;不搂,则不得妻,则将搂之乎? [Classical Chinese, simp.]- 山中處子大如孃,緩着粉紅短布裳。赤脚踉蹌羞過客,松籬深院弄花香。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]
- From: 《淮陽過次》 by Kim Byeong'yeon (金炳淵), 1800s
- San jung cheoja dae yeo nyang, wan chak bunhong dan po sang. Jeokgak nangchang su gwagaek, song ni sim won nong hwahyang. [Sino-Korean]
- The girl on the mountain is tall like a woman, leisurely wearing her skirt of short pink cloth. Her bare feet totter, abash at the passerby; far inside her yard within the pine fence, she plays amid the scent of flowers.
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處 | 子 |
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