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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
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  *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
sex scandal
HSK 7-9
the opposite sex / of the opposite sex / heterosexual / different in nature
HSK 7-9
(lit.) to enter through the back door / (fig.) to pull strings; to use connections / (fig.) (slang) to have anal sex
HSK 7-9
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]
sex / lovemaking
oral sex
to go to bed / (coll.) to have sex
sex scene (in a movie etc)
sex appeal / eroticism / sexuality / sexy
pornography / sex
coloration / hue / sex / sex appeal
(TCM) to build up one's kidney yang; to boost male sex drive
to denature / denaturation / to have a sex change / transsexual
gonad; sex gland
(neologism c. 2008) (slang) (coined as a pun on 幸福) satisfied with one's sex life
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have 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)
to want sex / given to lust / lecherous / lascivious / horny
to seduce (into sex)
to seduce / to lead into sex
perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex)
blatant / unsubtle / frank / (of sex, violence etc) explicit
group sex
to open fire with artillery / to set off firecrackers / to make one's stage debut / (slang) to have sex / to masturbate
sex fiend / molester / sex attacker / sex demon (a spirit that enters people's souls and makes them desire sex)
forbidden fruit (esp. premarital sex)
sex
to have car sex
greedy for sex / given to lust for women
rouge and powder / (fig.) the fair sex
to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom)
illicit sex / to rape or seduce
sex maniac
to have sex / to copulate
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
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
to promote sex and violence / to stir up lust and covetousness
to add interest (to a story) / to sex up
sex organ
attractive force (such as gravitation) / sex appeal / attractiveness
to sell meat / (slang) to sell sex
sex life
to trade sex for favorable treatment (career advancement, higher grades, rent-free accommodation etc) / to sleep in the same bed as one's child
oral sex / fellatio
to trick sb into having sex
deep throating (sex act) / a deep throat (anonymous informant)
(loanword) party (social gathering) / (Tw) party (typically associated with sex and drugs)
fisting (sex act)
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)
sex fluids
male masturbator (sex toy); artificial vagina
to stir up lust / to promote sex / to encourage licentiousness
age when girls start to develop feelings for the opposite sex / puberty
(of a sex worker) to solicit customers
(slang) to have sex / jig-a-jig
oral sex
flowery writing / writing concerning love and sex
sex toy
to mold (into seductive shape) / to dress up (usu. derogatory) / to sex up
equality of the sexes
(fig.) to use sex to pay off (a debt)
love egg (sex toy)
food and sex / appetite and lust
to have sex with a corpse
to run a red light / failing to stop at a red traffic light / (slang) to have sex with a girl while she is menstruating
twins of mixed sex
"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
equality between the sexes
to rent a room in a hotel / (of two people who are not married to each other) to rent a room for sex
sex hormone
(slang) very close same-sex friend / gay partner
prostitution / commercial sex / the sex trade
to lose one's head over lust / sex-crazy (idiom)
opposite polarities attract / (fig.) opposite sexes attract / opposites attract
wine, sex, avarice and temper (idiom); four cardinal vices
paying more attention to a lover than friends (idiom) / to value sex over friendship
the sex industry
dog paddle (swimming style) / doggy style (sex position)
premarital sex
sex ratio
employment as sex worker / prostitution
sex scandal
(coll.) to have sex
(neologism) (slang) to have sex
sex toy
(slang) breakup sex
sex scene (in a movie etc)
dog paddle (swimming) / doggy style (sex)
to ejaculate within a few seconds during sex
crazy about sex / lecherous / horny
same-sex marriage / gay marriage
sex drive
comfort woman (woman or girl forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military 1937-1945) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 慰安婦 "ianfu")
to wallow in alcohol and sex (idiom); overindulgence in wine and women / an incorrigible drunkard and lecher
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)

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