favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom); spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife
trad. 寵妾滅妻
Also written 寵妾滅妻【chǒng qiè miè qī】
Characters in this word
4宠
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to love, to pamper, to spoil, to favor
- Pinyin
- chǒng
- Traditional
- 寵
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 28857 of 2500
妾
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concubine, I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
- Pinyin
- qiè
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 28287 of 2500
灭
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to extinguish or put out, to go out (of a fire etc), to exterminate or wipe out, to drown
- Pinyin
- miè
- Traditional
- 滅
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 9910 of 2500
妻
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(bound form) wife
- Pinyin
- qī
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 18138 of 2500