| 荤段子 |
hūn duàn zi |
dirty joke |
| 荤 |
hūn |
strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc) / non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc) / vulgar / obscene |
| 荤 |
xūn |
used in 荤粥 |
| 段 |
Duàn |
surname Duan |
| 段 |
duàn |
paragraph / section / segment / stage (of a process) / classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc |
| 段子 |
duàn zi |
item of storytelling or performed dialogue (folk arts) / sketch |
| 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, as in 椅子 "chair" |