Taxonomy of meanings for 穢:　　

  • 穢 huì (OC: qʷads MC: ʔʷiɐi) 於廢切 去 廣韻：【惡也於廢切六 】
    • BARBARIAN
      • npluralname of tribe
    • COPULATE
      • nabactillegitimate sexual partners, indecent releations
    • DIRTY
      • nmdirt, filth
      • nmfigurativedirt; (also fig: wicked elements)
      • vadNfigurativedirty, defiled
      • vibe filthy, sordid
      • vichangebecome defiled
      • vtoNcausativecause to be dirty; inflict stain on
    • WEEDS
      • nweeds
      • vibe overgrown with unappetizing weeds
    • WICKED
      • nabactwickedness, acts of depravity
      • v[adN]nonreferentialthe morally defiled
      • vadNwicked, morally defiled
      • vibe wicked
      • viactindulge in dirty>wicked practices
    • CHAOS
      • ROTTEN
        • MISTAKE
          • EXCREMENT

            Additional information about 穢

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              Criteria
            • COPULATE

              1. The current general word for copulation applying to both humans and animals, are jiāo 交, hé 合, and these are all rather discrete abstract terms to use.

              2. Yù 御 refers to a male "riding" a female, and the word has no negative overtones.

              3. Tōng 通 and sī 私 are neutral historian's terms for improper sexual intercourse.

              4. Xì 戲 refers to a man making a sexual pass at a woman (occasionally actually one's own wife!).

              5. Yín 淫 and huì 穢 are derogatory terms for engaging in lewd sexual activities with someone.

              6. Xìng 幸 refers periphrastically and politely in historical texts to enjoying the sexual favours, typically of an emperor. See also FAVOUR

              7. Zhēng 烝 refers to the ritual establishment of political relations with a widowed woman of one's senior generation through publicised spending of a night with her.

              8. Bào 報 refers to establishing extramarital sexual relations with a woman of a (normally) lower but sometimes also of a higher generation, but not normally of the same generation.

              9. Gǔ 蠱 refers to a male using irregular means to obtain the sexual favours of a woman he is not married to.

              NB: gòu 構／媾 was late to become current as a term for sexual union.

            • DIRTY

              1. The current general word for uncleanness and dirt, both concrete and abstract, is wū 污 / 汙 (ant. jié 潔 "clean").

              2. Zhuó 濁 (ant qīng 清 "clear and pure") typically refers to physical states of dirtiness, but there are occasional usages like zhuó lì 濁吏 "morally impure official".

              3. Huì 穢 can refer to physical dirt, but the word is also used abstractly to refer to what is vulgar and morally distasteful.

              4. Hún 混 refers to an admixture of dirt rather than to the presence of dirt on some surface.

              5. Gòu 垢 refers to the presence of physical dirt on some surface.

              Word relations
            • Epithet: (DIRTY)粗 / 麤/COARSE The dominant word for anything physically or otherwise coarsE and not fine or subtle is cū 粗/麤 (ant. xì 細 "fine" and jīng 精"subtle and exquisite"). See also ORDINARY
            • Assoc: (DIRTY)塵/DUST Chén 塵 is the general word for dry dust.
            • Assoc: (WICKED)污/WICKED Wú 污 (ant. jié 潔 "morally pure and spotless") refers to moral defilement or moral impurity.
            • Assoc: (DIRTY)垢/DIRTY Gòu 垢 refers to the presence of physical dirt on some surface.
            • Assoc: (DIRTY)瑕/DEFECT
            • Oppos: (DIRTY)淨/PURE Jìng 淨 (ant. wū 污"impure") emphasises the unsullied state of something and the absence specifically of dirt.