Definition
秽 is a bound morpheme (不能独立使用) that appears in formal or literary compounds meaning 'dirty, filthy, vile'. You will see it in words like 污秽 (wūhuì, 'filthy, disgusting'), 淫秽 (yínhuì, 'obscene, pornographic'), and 秽物 (huìwù, 'filth, trash'). It is not interchangeable with 脏, which is the everyday word for 'dirty'.
b.f.
dirtyfilthyvileugly (bound morpheme used in literary compounds)
Examples
- 秽。Zhè zhǒng huì wù bù néng liú zài jiālǐ.This kind of filth cannot stay in the house.
- 。Zhège wǎngzhàn yǒu hěn duō yín huì nèiróng.This website has a lot of obscene content.
- 。Tā shuō de zhèxiē huà fēicháng wū huì.The words he said are very filthy.
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