断背 (斷背)
duàn bèi
Pinyin

Definition

断背 (斷背)
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duàn bèi
  1. homosexual (a reference to Brokeback Mountain 斷背山|断背山[Duàn bèi Shān], a 2005 movie about a same-sex relationship)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

背
bēi
  1. 1 variant: 背 bēi
背叛
bèi pàn
  1. 1 to betray
背影
bèi yǐng
  1. 1 rear view
  2. 2 figure seen from behind
  3. 3 view of the back (of a person or object)
背后
bèi hòu
  1. 1 behind
  2. 2 at the back
  3. 3 in the rear
  4. 4 behind sb's back
背景
bèi jǐng
  1. 1 background
  2. 2 backdrop
  3. 3 context
  4. 4 (fig.) powerful backer
  5. 5 classifier: 种 zhǒng

Idioms (12)

勾肩搭背
gōu jiān dā bèi
  1. 1 arms around each other's shoulders (idiom)
手心手背都是肉
shǒu xīn shǒu bèi dōu shì ròu
  1. 1 lit. both the palm and the back of the hand are made of flesh (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to both be of equal importance
  3. 3 to value both equally
扼喉抚背
è hóu fǔ bèi
  1. 1 lit. to strangle the front and press the back (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to occupy all key points (military)
弃约背盟
qì yuē bèi méng
  1. 1 to abrogate an agreement
  2. 2 to break one's oath (idiom)
汗流浃背
hàn liú jiā bèi
  1. 1 to sweat profusely (idiom)
  2. 2 drenched in sweat

Sample Sentences

就是同性恋的意思。我们把男同性恋叫做“男同志”，把女同性恋叫做“女同志”，统称“同志”。当然，中文里还有其他表示同性恋的词，比如“玻璃”、“断背”、“断袖”等等，都是比较隐晦的说法。
jiùshì tóngxìngliàn de yìsi 。wǒmen bǎ nán tóngxìngliàn jiàozuò “nán tóngzhì ”，bǎ nǚ tóngxìngliàn jiàozuò “nǚ tóngzhì ”，tǒngchēng “tóngzhì ”。dāngrán ，Zhōngwén lǐ hái yǒu qítā biǎoshì tóngxìngliàn de cí ，bǐrú “bōli ”、“duànbèi ”、“duànxiù ”děngděng ，dōu shì bǐjiào yǐnhuì de shuōfa 。
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