| 江湖骗子 |
jiāng hú piàn zi |
swindler / itinerant con-man |
| 江 |
Jiāng |
surname Jiang |
| 江 |
jiāng |
river / CL:条,道 |
| 江湖 |
jiāng hú |
rivers and lakes / all corners of the country / remote areas to which hermits retreat / section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law / the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武侠) / (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc / demimonde / (in modern times) triads / secret gangster societies / underworld |
| 湖 |
hú |
lake / CL:个,片 |
| 骗 |
piàn |
to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over |
| 骗子 |
piàn zi |
swindler / a cheat |
| 子 |
zǐ |
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat / viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub- |
| 子 |
zi |
(noun suffix) |