kù

袴

Character · NounTraditional絝

trousers; pants (archaic variant)

Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma

Meanings

1 sense · 2 examples
1.

noun

trousers; pants (variant of 裤)

archaic

Archaic variant of 裤. Now mostly preserved in the compound 纨绔 (wánkù), referring to silk trousers and metaphorically to the idle rich. The traditional forms include 絝 and 袴.

wán纨
kù绔
zǐ子
dì弟

profligate sons of the idle rich; dandies

Gǔ古
dài代
fù富
guì贵
rén人
jiā家
cháng常
chuān穿
wán纨
kù绔
 。

Wealthy families in ancient times often wore silk trousers.