泆
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Meaning: licentious, libertine, dissipate
💡 Water (氵) overflowing its bounds = licentious behavior spilling out of control.
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Character Story & Explanation
In a bustling Shanghai night market, a vendor warns a young man who has been partying too hard: '你最近太泆了，要收敛点' (You've been too licentious lately, need to restrain yourself). 泆 (yì) means licentious or dissipated, often describing excessive indulgence. It carries a moral warning in Chinese culture, rarely used in daily talk but found in literature to criticize debauchery. The radical 氵 (water) suggests flowing out of control, like a flood of excess.
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