江湖
Traditional form:
江湖
Pinyin (reading):
jiānghú
Definitions:
- 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／武侠 (wǔxiá))
- (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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