江湖 jiānghú

1. jiānghú noun rivers and lakes
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '江湖'; Guoyu '江湖' 1; Mathews 1931 '江湖', p. 87)
2. jiānghú noun around the whole country
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '江湖'; Guoyu '江湖' 2)
3. jiānghú noun a hermit's dwelling
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '江湖' 3)
4. jiānghú noun underworld; organized crime
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Wikipedia '江湖')
5. jiānghu noun the worldly-wise; someone with much life experience
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '江湖' jiānghu)

Contained in

• 跑江湖 to make a living as a traveling performer
• 老江湖 a much-travelled person
• 江湖道义(江湖道義) martial arts code of honor; triad code of honor
• 江湖好汉(江湖好漢) a martial arts hero; an adventurer
• 江湖术语(江湖術語) martial arts terms; triad word use
• 人在江湖，身不由己 you can't always do as you like; one has to compromise in this world
• 走江湖 to travel around the country
• 江湖医生(江湖醫生) quack; charlatan; itinerant doctor and swindler
• 重出江湖 (of a person) to return to the fray after a period of inactivity; to jump back into the thick of things; (of sth that was once popular) to be resurrected
• 江湖骗子(江湖騙子) swindler; itinerant con-man
• 江湖人 traveller ; adventurer
• 闯荡江湖(闖蕩江湖) to travel around the country
• 笑傲江湖 to live joyfully in the wilderness
• 江湖艺人(江湖藝人) itinerant entertainer
• 浪迹江湖(浪跡江湖) to roam far and wide; to drift with the wind
• 江湖客 travelling merchant
• 闯江湖(闖江湖) to leave home to experience life
• 江湖一点诀(江湖一點訣) special technique; trick of the trade; knack
• 江湖郎中 wandering seller of traditional Chinese medicine
• 江湖术士(江湖術士) a wandering magician

Also contained in

江湖儿女

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Truncated for common words

• 第四十四回 Chapter 44 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 第三十二回 Chapter 32 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 7
• 卷九十七 志第五十 河渠七 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Rivers and Canals 7 History of Song 宋史 — count: 6
• 第三十六回 Chapter 36 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
• 卷五十五 Scroll 55 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
• 第二十七回 Chapter 27 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 5
• 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 4
• 第三十五回 Chapter 35 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
• 第四十三回 Chapter 43 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4
• 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 4

Collocations

• 在江湖 (在江湖) 在江湖之間 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 7
• 江湖之上 (江湖之上) 江湖之上 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷五十一 賈鄒枚路傳 Volume 51: Jia, Zou, Mei and Lu — count: 6
• 江湖之间 (江湖之間) 在江湖之間 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 5
• 带江湖 (帶江湖) 濱帶江湖 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十六 伏侯宋蔡馮趙牟韋列傳 Volume 26: Biographies of Fu, Hou, Song, Cai, Feng, Zhao, Mou, Wei — count: 4
• 尹江湖 (尹江湖) 芮尹江湖 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 3
• 遊江湖 (遊江湖) 久遊江湖 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百六十五 列傳第一百十五: 韋夏卿 王正雅 柳公綽 崔玄亮 溫造 郭承嘏 殷侑 徐晦 Volume 165 Biographies 115: Wei Xiaqing, Wang Zhengya, Liu Gongchao, Cui Xuanliang, Wen Zao, Guo Chenggu, Yin You, Xu Hui — count: 3
• 江湖沅 (江湖沅) 惟獨江湖沅湘之表 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十一 志第十一 禮下 Volume 21 Treatises 11: Rites Part Three — count: 2
• 江湖险 (江湖險) 江湖險隔 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷66　列傳第31 李諤 鮑宏 裴政 柳莊 源師 郎茂 高構 張虔威 榮毗 陸知命 房彥謙 Volume 66 Biographies 31: Li E, Hao Hong, Pei Zheng, Liu Zhuang, Yuan Shi, Lang Mao, Gao Gou, Zhang Qianwei, Rong Pi, Lu Zhiming, Fang Yanqian — count: 2
• 江湖边 (江湖邊) 當在江湖邊 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十八 志第十八 五行中 Volume 28 Treatises 18: Five Elements Part Two — count: 2
• 视江湖 (視江湖) 武視江湖 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十三 志第十三 樂下 Volume 23 Treatises 13: Music Part Two — count: 2