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風月
简 风月 · 繁 風月Mandarin · pinyin fēng yuè
Meanings
- romance
- beautiful scenery
- small or petty (of talk etc)
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1–4 · feng1 yue4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
fung1 jyut6
Cantonese word readings for 風月. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun · Etymology 1
- (literally) gentle breeze and bright moonlight
- (figurative) scene; beautiful scenery
- (figurative) romance; love; lovemaking
- (figurative, literary) brothel; whorehouse
- (figurative, literary) prostitute
adj · Etymology 1
- (figurative, literary) libertine; unrestrained
- (figurative, literary, of talk, etc.) small; petty
verb · Etymology 1
- (figurative, literary) to visit prostitutes
name · Etymology 2
- (historical) Ventôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)
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