to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants; to toady; boot-licking
trad. 溜鬚拍馬
Also written 溜鬚拍馬【liū xū pāi mǎ】
Characters in this word
4溜
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to slip away, to escape in stealth, to skate
- Pinyin
- liū
- Strokes
- 13
- Frequency
- 7616 of 2500
须
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must, to have to, to wait
- Pinyin
- xū
- Traditional
- 須
- Strokes
- 9
- Frequency
- 16352 of 2500
拍
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to pat, to clap, to slap, to swat, to take (a photo), to shoot (a film), racket (sports), beat (music)
- Pinyin
- pāi
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 646 of 2500
马
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surname Ma, abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
- Pinyin
- Mǎ
- Traditional
- 馬
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 1030 of 2500