lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities
trad. 打腫臉充胖子
Also written 打腫臉充胖子【dǎ zhǒng liǎn chōng pàng zi】
Characters in this word
6打
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(loanword) dozen, Taiwan pr. [da3]
- Pinyin
- dá
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 195 of 2500
肿
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to swell, swelling, swollen
- Pinyin
- zhǒng
- Traditional
- 腫
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 20539 of 2500
脸
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face, CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- Pinyin
- liǎn
- Traditional
- 臉
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 889 of 2500
充
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sufficient; full, to fill, to serve as; to act as, to act falsely as; to pose as
- Pinyin
- chōng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 30299 of 2500
胖
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healthy, at ease
- Pinyin
- pán
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 4225 of 2500
子
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son, child, seed, egg, small thing, 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat, viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4], ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north), subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Pinyin
- zǐ
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 2170 of 2500