lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column; to replace the original with a fake; to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
trad. 偷梁換柱
Also written 偷梁換柱【tōu liáng huàn zhù】
Characters in this word
4偷
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to steal, to pilfer, to snatch, thief, stealthily
- Pinyin
- tōu
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 922 of 2500
梁
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Liang Dynasty (502–557), Later Liang Dynasty (907–923), surname Liang
- Pinyin
- Liáng
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 21662 of 2500
换
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to exchange, to change (clothes etc), to substitute, to switch, to convert (currency)
- Pinyin
- huàn
- Traditional
- 換
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 1175 of 2500
柱
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pillar, CL:根[gen1]
- Pinyin
- zhù
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 28901 of 2500