鸟兽行

鳥獸行
niǎoshòuxíng
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 incestuous conduct; beastly sexual misconduct
  2. 2 acts unworthy of a human being

Examples

Cǐ děng niǎoshòuxíng, wèi lǐfǎ suǒ bùróng.
Such bestial conduct has no place in any civilized order.
Gǔrén shì luànlún wéi niǎoshòuxíng, yán jiā chéngchǔ.
The ancients viewed incest as beastly conduct and punished it harshly.

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Highly literary and condemnatory, found mainly in classical texts and historical writing about sexual or incestuous transgressions. Not something you'd hear in modern conversation.

Stroke Order

niǎo
shòu
xíng