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风尘

fēng chén

2-character word Traditional 風塵

What 风尘 means

1. windblown dust
2. hardships of travel
3. vicissitudes of life
4. prostitution

The characters in 风尘

• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 尘chéndust; dirt; earth

Example sentences

• 她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
  She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
• 她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在遥远的风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
  Tā juéde húnshēn bù zìzai, jǐnguǎn zhège qíguài háizi de shēntǐ kěnéng zuò zài zhuōzi páng, dàn tā de jīngshén què zài yáoyuǎn de fēngchén yúnwù zhōng yáobùkějí, gāo gāodì yú xiǎngxiànglì de chìbǎng shàng piāofú.
  She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.

Words starting with 风尘

• 风尘仆仆fēng chén pú púlit. covered in dust (idiom); fig. travel-worn

Words containing 风尘

• 满脸风尘mǎn liǎn fēng chénlit. with a face full of dust; showing the hardships of travel (idiom)
• 一路风尘yī lù fēng chénto live an exhausting journey

Sounds the same

Read fēng chén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 封尘to gather dust