| 江湖医生 |
jiāng hú yī shēng |
unlicensed doctor; quack; back-alley or itinerant practitioner |
| 江 |
Jiāng |
surname Jiang / (bound form) Yangtze River / (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江苏) |
| 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 |
| 医 |
yī |
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat |
| 医生 |
yī shēng |
doctor / CL:个,位,名 |
| 生 |
shēng |
to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born / to arise; to occur / to light (a fire) / to live; to be alive / life / raw; uncooked; unprocessed / unfamiliar; strange / (bound form) student; person engaged in a field / (bound form) male role in traditional opera / (bound form) life; lifetime / (bound form) means of livelihood / (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼) / (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽) |