八股文 Save Sign in to save words bāgǔwén ㄅㄚ ㄍㄨˇ ㄨㄣˊ 男 女 eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties Character by character 八(bā)eight 股(gǔ)thigh 文(wén)surname Wen A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0