peanut gallery (esp. in online forums); onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it; (neologism c. 2016)
trad. 吃瓜群眾
Also written 吃瓜群眾【chī guā qún zhòng】
Characters in this word
4吃
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to eat; to consume, to eat at (a cafeteria etc), to eradicate; to destroy, to absorb, to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- Pinyin
- chī
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 143 of 2500
瓜
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melon; gourd; squash, (slang) a piece of gossip
- Pinyin
- guā
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 13003 of 2500
群
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variant of 群[qun2]
- Pinyin
- qún
- Traditional
- 羣
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 8025 of 2500
众
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abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives
- Pinyin
- Zhòng
- Traditional
- 眾
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 20373 of 2500