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Meaning of 貞

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(Simplified: 贞)
Pinyin: zhēn
English Definition: chaste
Chinese Definition:
①坚定,有节操:忠贞不渝。坚贞不屈。贞节。贞士(忠贞之士)。
②旧礼教中束缚女子的一种道德观念,指妇女不改嫁等:贞女。贞烈。贞操(同“贞节”)。贞淑。
③占,卜,问卦:贞卜。
④古同“桢”,桢干(gàn)。
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貞操 zhēn cāo (usually of women) chastity; virginity; virtue; honor; loyalty; moral integrity
貞節 zhēn jié chastity; virginity (of women); moral integrity (of men); loyalty; constancy
貞潔 zhēn jié chastity
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Example Sentences
1
If a woman loses her virginity before marriage, the deal is off.
2
Abstinence only programs focus on teaching teenagers to not have sex until marriage.
3
Our children do not know about the infidelity yet, but I'm sure it will come out.
4
So if early entrance to sexuality is psychologically harmful, then that effect is for White girls only.
5
But time, unforgivingly, moves on. The idyll shows faultlines: infidelity, disease, age, loss, divorce.