| 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 / CL:个,片 |
| 医 |
yī |
medical / medicine / doctor / to cure / to treat |
| 医生 |
yī shēng |
doctor / CL:个,位,名 |
| 生 |
shēng |
to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student |