断袖之癖
duàn​xiù​zhī​pǐ

homosexuality

  • created sense approved 断袖之癖/斷袖之癖 · duàn​xiù​zhī​pǐ · homosexuality — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    断袖之癖 / 斷袖之癖

    duàn​xiù​zhī​pǐ

    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.

    断袖 (literal) → 断袖/斷袖 · duàn​xiù · male homosexuality 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 癖 (bound) → 癖 · pǐ · habit

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense