to paint one's face with stage makeup; (neologism, attested by 2014) to expose sb as wrong; to put egg on sb's face
trad. 打臉
Also written 打臉【dǎ liǎn】
Characters in this word
2打
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(loanword) dozen, Taiwan pr. [da3]
- Pinyin
- dá
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 195 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