habit / hobby
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
one's passion / one's obsession
eccentricity / peculiarity / strange hobby
mysophobia / obsession with cleanliness / extreme fastidiousness
onychophagia (nail biting)
sexual fetish
bad habit
necrophilia
(sexual) fetishism
pedophilia
foot fetish
foot fetish
lit. cut sleeve (idiom) / fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
sadism (fetish)
exhibitionism
transvestism
pica (medicine)
addiction
moral fastidiousness / psychological obsession with maintaining moral purity in thoughts, relationships etc
indecent exposure / flashing
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27