断袖之癖 duànxiùzhīpǐ homosexuality Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 断袖之癖 斷袖之癖 duànxiùzhīpǐ homosexuality euphemism for male homosexuality, literally "the habit of the cut sleeve". The phrase refers to an emperor who cut off his own sleeve rather than wake his sleeping male lover who was sleeping on it. Frequency Written text 0.080 per million Cross-References Synonym 断袖 duànxiù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
断袖之癖 斷袖之癖 duànxiùzhīpǐ homosexuality euphemism for male homosexuality, literally "the habit of the cut sleeve". The phrase refers to an emperor who cut off his own sleeve rather than wake his sleeping male lover who was sleeping on it. Frequency Written text 0.080 per million Cross-References Synonym 断袖 duànxiù Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
