娼 — Chinese character
娼
chāng
prostitute, harlot
- Pinyin
- chāng
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 女 昌
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 昌
- Japanese
- 娼 as a kanji
Common words with 娼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 娼妓 | chāng jì | prostitute |
| 嫖娼 | piáo chāng | to visit prostitutes; to go whoring |
| 娼妇 (娼婦) | chāng fù | prostitute |
| 暗娼 | àn chāng | unlicensed (unregistered) prostitute |
| 逼良为娼 (逼良為娼) | bī liáng wéi chāng | to force an honest girl into prostitution (idiom); to debauch |
| 宿娼 | sù chāng | to visit a prostitute |
| 娼女 | chāng nǚ | prostitute |
| 娼家 | chāng jiā | brothel |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.