出柜 (出櫃)
chū guì
Pinyin
Definition
出柜 (出櫃)
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- to come out of the closet
- to reveal one's sexual orientation
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to pay
- 2 to invest (energy or time in a friendship etc)
- 1 to extend
- 1 to go out
- 2 to come out
- 3 to occur
- 4 to produce
- 5 to go beyond
- 6 to rise
- 7 to put forth
- 8 to happen
- 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 1 to come out
- 2 to appear
- 3 to arise
- 1 to go out
Idioms (20)
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鼻孔出气
- 1 lit. to breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)
- 2 to sing from the same hymn sheet
仓皇出逃
- 1 to run off in a great panic (idiom)
倾巢而出
- 1 the whole nest came out (idiom); to turn out in full strength
出乎意外
- 1 beyond expectation (idiom); unexpected
Sample Sentences
嗨,还以为是出柜了呢,太阳底下没有新鲜事儿,如今这社会环境啊,男人出轨,简直就是家常便饭的事儿。
Hey! I thought you were going to say that he'd come out of the closet. There's really nothing new under the sun. Nowadays in this social environment, men cheating is regular fare.
就算没勇气出柜,也不能为了掩人耳目,断送别人的幸福啊!跟一个正常的渴望爱的人结婚,把婚姻当幌子,自己却出去找同性寄托自己的性和情,呃,太恶心了!
Even if they don't have the courage to come out, they still shouldn't deceive people and deprive others of their happiness! To get married to someone with normal love needs and use marriage as a cover, and then to go out and look for someone gay to satisfy their emotional and sexual needs... Oh, it's disgusting!