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  *性* | 性* | *性
nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
gender / sex
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *色* | 色* | *色
color / CL: 種|种 / look / appearance / sex
HSK 4
woman / the female sex
HSK 5
the male sex / a male
HSK 5
(idiom) with real guns and live ammunition; (fig.) for real (involving genuine action rather than rehearsal, simulation or theory); (coll.) to have actual sex; to go all the way
to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
Appetite and lust are only natural (Mencius 6A:4). / By nature we desire food and sex.
(of a ghost) to make strange things happen / to act up / to act behind the scenes / to make mischief / odd / to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
sex life
the opposite sex / of the opposite sex / heterosexual / different in nature
HSK 7-9
sex / lovemaking
to want sex / given to lust / lecherous / lascivious / horny
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
adult products; sex-related goods (condoms, lubricants, sex toys etc)
sex education
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
sex discrimination / sexism
equality between the sexes
the sex industry
attractive force (such as gravitation) / sex appeal / attractiveness
sex scandal
HSK 7-9
to rent a room in a hotel / (of two people who are not married to each other) to rent a room for sex
to have sex / to copulate
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
coloration / hue / sex / sex appeal
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
(slang) friend with benefits / casual sex partner
sex hormone
sex appeal / eroticism / sexuality / sexy
(neologism) (slang) to have sex
sex scene (in a movie etc)
sex drive
sex fiend / molester / sex attacker / sex demon (a spirit that enters people's souls and makes them desire sex)
(loanword) party (social gathering) / (Tw) party (typically associated with sex and drugs)
adult product / sex toy
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
to turn pale at the mention of sex; prudish
that one / that thing / that (as opposed to this) / (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis) / (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word) / (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc) / (euph.) menstruation / sex / also pr. [nei4 ge5]
(slang) to have sex / jig-a-jig
sex
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
to lose one's head over lust / sex-crazy (idiom)
opposite polarities attract / (fig.) opposite sexes attract / opposites attract
equality of the sexes
greedy for sex / given to lust for women
sparkler (handheld firework) / (slang) vibrator (sex toy)
blatant / unsubtle / frank / (of sex, violence etc) explicit
to denature / denaturation / to have a sex change / transsexual
rouge and powder / (fig.) the fair sex
forbidden fruit (esp. premarital sex)
to ejaculate within a few seconds during sex
twins of mixed sex
disparity between the sexes
to open fire with artillery / to set off firecrackers / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to have sex / to masturbate
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
love egg (sex toy)
gonad; sex gland
(slang) to have sex outdoors or in a public place
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
to seek happiness elsewhere (euphemism for extramarital sex) / a bit on the side
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
case involving sex scandal (law)
illicit sex / to rape or seduce
to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom)
premarital sex
sex toy
(slang) very close same-sex friend / gay partner
woman-on-top sex position
crazy about sex / lecherous / horny
oral sex
child molester / sex tourist
employment as sex worker / prostitution
to have sex with a prostitute
sex partner
candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元) / (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet
deep throating (sex act) / a deep throat (anonymous informant)
heterosexual sex
group sex
pornography / sex
sex worker
sex scene (in a movie etc)
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
to promote sex and violence / to stir up lust and covetousness
homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山, a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)
sex-crazed woman
food and sex / appetite and lust
sex organ
sex service industry
Dufour gland (produces female sex hormone in bees)
mad about sex / nymphomania
sex fluids
to have car sex
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher
to stir up lust / to promote sex / to encourage licentiousness
(coll.) to have sex
(of a sex worker) to solicit customers
sex scandal

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