断袖
duàn​xiù

male homosexuality

  • created reference approved 断袖/斷袖 → 断袖之癖/斷袖之癖 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    断袖 / 斷袖 duàn​xiù

    断袖之癖 / 斷袖之癖 duàn​xiù​zhī​pǐ

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 断袖/斷袖 · duàn​xiù · male homosexuality — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    断袖 / 斷袖

    duàn​xiù

    male homosexuality

    (literary) alluding to male homosexuality; a reference to Emperor Ai of Han who cut off his sleeve to avoid waking his sleeping lover Dong Xian

    断 (literal) → 断/斷 · duàn · to break 袖 (literal) → 袖 · xiù · sleeve

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

    created sense