(table tennis) edge ball; (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
trad. 擦邊球
Also written 擦邊球【cā biān qiú】
Characters in this word
3擦
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to rub; to scratch, to wipe; to polish, to apply (lipstick, lotion etc), to brush (past), to shred (a vegetable etc)
- Pinyin
- cā
- Strokes
- 17
- Frequency
- 2444 of 2500
边
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side, edge, margin, border, boundary, CL:個|个[ge4], simultaneously
- Pinyin
- biān
- Traditional
- 邊
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 2075 of 2500
球
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ball used for playing games (variant of 球[qiu2])
- Pinyin
- qiú
- Traditional
- 毬
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 1476 of 2500