chāng​yōu

entertainers

倡优 倡優 chāng​yōu
entertainers
(literary) actors, actresses, and musicians in ancient China; people who performed singing and dancing for a living
prostitutes and actors
(literary) a collective term for prostitutes and actors, often used to refer to people in low-status entertainment professions in old China

Frequency

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0.045 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)