hǎi​shàng​huā

flowers on the sea

  • created sense approved 海上花 · hǎi​shàng​huā · Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    海上花

    hǎi​shàng​huā

    Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai

    short title of the classic novel by Han Bangqing depicting the lives of courtesans in the foreign concessions of Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty

    海上 (literal) → 海上 · hǎi​shàng · Shanghai 花 (literal) → 花 · huā · beauty

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  • created sense approved 海上花 · hǎi​shàng​huā · flowers on the sea — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    海上花

    hǎi​shàng​huā

    flowers on the sea

    (literary) flowers drifting on the sea, often used as a metaphor for courtesans in old Shanghai

    海上 (literal) → 海上 · hǎi​shàng · at sea 花 (literal) → 花 · huā · flower

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

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