江湖

jiāng hú

B2 Level 6

Definition

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. 武俠)
(in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde
(in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld

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Vocabulary & levels: TBCL / NAER. Parts of speech: TOCFL 8000-word list (SC-TOP). Definitions: CC-CEDICT & CFDICT (CC BY-SA). Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License).