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  • Carcharodonna [she/her]M
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    3 hours ago

    I was confused about this too and initially thought it meant lace. After some research it’s apparently slang that combines the characters for lace with the character for edge or border, and the result is 蕾丝边 (lěisībiān). So “lace border” sounds like “lesbian” in Chinese.