白虎星 (bái hǔ) — (noun, derogatory, superstitious) a woman believed to be a jinx to her husband (in Chinese folk belief)
Definition
白虎星 (báihǔxīng) is a folk-belief superstition term: a woman thought to bring bad luck or even death to her husband. It is derogatory and reflects a discriminatory traditional idea about women.
noun
(noun, derogatory, superstitious) a woman believed to be a jinx to her husband (in Chinese folk belief)
Examples
- ，白虎星。Zài gǔ dài, yǒu xiē mí xìn de rén rèn wéi bái hǔ huì gěi zhàng fu dài lái è yùn.In ancient times, some superstitious people believed that a white-tiger-star woman would bring bad luck to her husband.
- 白虎星，。Tā yīn wèi bèi shuō chéng bái hǔ, hūn yīn yì zhí bú shùn lì.Because she was called a white-tiger-star woman, her marriage was always unlucky.
- 白虎星。Zhè zhǒng bái hǔ de shuō fǎ qí shí shì duì nǚ xìng de qí shì.This kind of white-tiger-star saying is actually discrimination against women.
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