unclean

unclean

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù g ā Nb ù J ì ng, which means unclean and dirty. It also means feeling unclean because of taboo. It can also describe the uncivilized language. From a dream of Red Mansions.

The origin of Idioms

The 46th chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty: "it's not clean. I don't know what's wrong with it. I bought it for three or two days, and then I made a fool of it."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] sneak chicken and dog [antonym] aboveboard

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions Chapter 20: who knows there was a fight in the school room yesterday. I don't know it was the students attached to the school there who bullied him. There were some dirty words in it. They told his sister. Yang chaoguan's "yinfengge Zaju · poor Ruanji scolds the God of wealth": at that time, I was still a poor man and ended up in a mess. Wang Shuo: "unless you are talking about the dirty girls who often come to him."