娼 | [ chāng ] prostitute |
娼女 | [ chāng nǚ ] prostitute |
娼妓 | [ chāng jì ] prostitute |
娼婦 | [ chāng fù ] prostitute |
娼家 | [ chāng jiā ] brothel |
⇒ 嫖娼 | [ chāng ] to visit prostitutes, to go whoring |
⇒ 宿娼 | [ sù chāng ] to visit a prostitute |
⇒ 暗娼 | [ àn chāng ] unlicensed (unregistered) prostitute |
⇒ 笑貧不笑娼 | [ pín bù chāng ] the notion in society that it's better to get ahead in the world by abandoning one's scruples than to suffer poverty, lit. despising poverty but not prostitution (idiom) |
⇒ 逼良為娼 | [ bī liáng weí chāng ] to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom), to debauch |