Translation

• rivers and lakes
• all corners of the country
• remote areas to which hermits retreat
• section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law
• the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2])
• (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc
• demimonde
• (in modern times) triads
• secret gangster societies
• underworld

Synonyms

• 地表水, 大江, 大溜, 天堑, 川, 延河水, 水, 水流, 江, 江河, 江河水, 江流, 沧江, 河, 河川, 河水, 河流, 河里, 沿河, 浊流, 淮, 长河
• 下方, 世间, 人世, 人世间, 人间, 凡, 凡间, 尘, 尘世, 尘俗, 尘寰, 浊世, 红尘, 花花世界, 阳间