noun #20,271 vulgar

Meanings

  1. 1 vulva / vagina (extremely vulgar slang)

Examples

Zhège cí jíqí cūsú, zài zhèngshì chǎnghé juéduì bùnéng shǐyòng.
This word is extremely vulgar and must never be used in formal situations.

Tips

register
is one of the most offensive words in Mandarin, equivalent to the English c-word. It is used as the basis of compound insults such as and appears in extremely crude speech. Avoid entirely in any formal or polite context.

Components

radical
shī
body; corpse
Three-stroke body radical wrapping the top-left, the indexing radical. originally depicted a person seated for ancestral ritual; in modern characters it functions as the anatomical-position marker. Here it points to a body part, much as in fart, 尿 urine, penis — the crude body lexicon.
semantic
xué
cave; cavity; hole
Bottom-right contributes the meaning — a hole, cavity, or opening. The combination with (body) yields a transparent ideograph for the female anatomical opening. Same character sits inside to investigate, empty, window — all involving openings or hollow spaces.

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