| 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 |
| 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. |