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臭老九

chòu lǎo jiǔ

3-character word

What 臭老九 means

1. stinking intellectual (contemptuous term for educated people during the Cultural Revolution)

The characters in 臭老九

• 臭chòustench; smelly; to smell (bad)
• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 九jiǔnine; 9

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