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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

卖身

màishēn

to prostitute oneself

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to prostitute oneself

02

to sell oneself into slavery

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 卖身 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 卖身 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

除非你真的卖身,不过这也犯法了。chú fēi nǐ zhēn de mài shēn, bù guò zhè yě fàn fǎ le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我当时很小,那时我为了钱而卖身。wǒ dāng shí hěn xiǎo, nà shí wǒ wèi le qián ér mài shēn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 卖身.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 卖身.

Directly before

  • 真的卖身1
  • 而卖身1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 卖身

What does 卖身 mean in Chinese?

卖身 (màishēn) means to prostitute oneself.

How do you pronounce 卖身?

卖身 is pronounced màishēn.

Is 卖身 an HSK word?

卖身 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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