檳榔西施

槟榔西施
bīnglángxīshī

“betel nut beauty” (previously common phenomenon of employing young, scantily clad women to sell betel nuts and cigarettes along the roadsides in Taiwan)

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Homographs

檳榔西施 bīnglang Xīshī (Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth

Entry Composition

=1 檳榔 bīnglang betel palm (Areca catechu); betel nut
=1 檳榔 bīngláng
  1. betel nut; areca nut (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 粒 c mn)
  2. betel palm
=2 西施 Xīshī Xishi (c. 450 BC), famous Chinese beauty, foremost of the four legendary beauties 四大美女 sìdàměinǚ, given by King Gou Jian 勾踐 Gōu Jiàn of Yue as concubine to King of Wu as part of a successful plan to destroy Wu
=2 西施 xīshī
  1. (figurative) beautiful woman
  2. (figurative, literary) fallen flower
  3. Xi Shi
  4. beautiful woman
  5. fallen flower