to show off one's cleverness; (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
trad. 賣乖
Also written 賣乖【mài guāi】
Characters in this word
2卖
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to sell, to betray, to spare no effort, to show off or flaunt
- Pinyin
- mài
- Traditional
- 賣
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 805 of 2500
乖
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(of a child) obedient, well-behaved, clever, shrewd, alert, perverse, contrary to reason, irregular, abnormal
- Pinyin
- guāi
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 2762 of 2500