春宮

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Chinese

 
spring (time); gay; joyful
spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
palace; uterus
trad. (春宮)
simp. (春宫)

Etymology

In ancient China, the crown prince's palace is in the east, which is associated with spring in Wu Xing. The sense “erotic drawing” is from the Song-dynasty 《春宮祕戲圖》.

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Noun

春宮

  1. (literary) crown prince's palace
  2. (literary, metonymically) crown prince
  3. erotic drawing; erotic scene
  4. (historical) palace of Qingdi (青帝, god of spring in Chinese legendaries)

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春宮

  1. (historical) A palace in the Zhou dynasty.